Happy New Year!

Last month we learned about Winter Holidays Around the World; including Kwanzaa, Hannukah and Christmas.  This month we are moving on to Mittens and Winter.  The main focus of this unit is
The Mitten by Jan Brett.

Before the winter break, we finished up all the letters of the alphabet.  We are now moving on to Unit 3 in the fundations curriculum.  This unit introduces tapping words to read and write.  Please check in your child's folder for the Unit 3 information packet.

We will continue to practice writing lowercase letters with a handwriting review.  The kids like our new approach to handwriting.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays we review one letter.  I model writing the letter and then we write 5 together.  Then I play a song that goes along with the letter we are practicing, and the kid fill their boards while writing to the music.  This week's song was Allie Alligator for the letter "A". Lastly, we practice writing on lined paper.  The kids are really enjoying handwriting since we added music to the mix.

This week we read Snowment at Night .  We made snowmen, by ripping white paper. This was very challenging, but ended up being a very successful project.  We added a sentence to our project, which says what our snowmen like to do at night.

On Friday we made snowflakes with our 5th grade buddies, using white pattern block shapes.