Voyagers in Pre- k 4
Playing, Learning & Growing Together
December Happenings
* December 5 - Collecting small toys for our students gift bags.
*December 14 - Polar Express Day , wear your Pajamas to school
Holiday Dinner in Cafeteria
* December 15 - Wrapped Book for Book Exchange Due
Winter Holiday Party - AM 10:00-11:00 PM 2:00-3:00
* December 16 - Early Release
* December 19 - Winter Holiday Break - See you next year!
Thematic Units
We will be spending the next three weeks learning about
Winter Celebrations and traditions around the world.
* Gingerbread Man
*Christmas
*Hanukkah
* Kwanzaa
*Ramadan
*Las Posadas
Song we are learning. "Must Be Santa"
Must Be Santa
Books We Are Reading
- The Ginger Bread Boy , Paul Galdone
- The Gingerbread Man, Jim Alesworth
- The Gingerbread Girl, Lisa Campbell
- The Gingerbread Baby , Jan Brett
- The Gingerbread Pirates , Kristin Kladstrup
- 10 Gingerbread Men
- Misses Wishy Washy's Christmas
- Santa Close is coming to Town
- The Night Before Christmas
- Bear Stays Up for Christmas
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
- Together For Kwanzaa
- On the First Night of Hanukkah
- My First Ramadan
- The Legend of the Poinsettia
- Celebrations
Having fun and learning about Thanksgiving !
LANGUAGE
- Children use books and other written materials to engage in pre-reading behaviors. Independent Reading Time
- Compare & Contrast different versions of a story ]
- Sequencing a story / retelling
- Listening & Comprehension Skills. Students show understanding by following two and three step directions.
- Hearing Beginning Sounds and Naming Letters. (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,k,l,r,o,t,)http://www.starfall.com/ & http://www.abcya.com
- Combining onset & rime (initial consonant and vowel consonant) to make words
- Sight Words - Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange, Brown & White
- Vocabulary - listen, ask, answer, see, feel ,touch, hear, taste, smell, smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, hard, healthy, grow, plant, celebration, present, party,
- Song Folder Visit https://clearcreek.itslearning.com/lprice/songs/
The Gingerbread Boy
Writing
- Hand writing - Letters G, K, R
- Movable Alphabet - match letters, ABC order, build words (as, fast, run, pig, gift, )
- Intentionally uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning . Understand that you can talk, draw and write about things that have happened to you
- Uses mock letters/letter strings
- Shared Writing
- iPad AP - Little Writer
Mathematics
- Calendar - Graphing the Weather, Rote Counting to 30 , Number Recognition, Patterning
- Describe and sort by different attributes ( alike & different)
- Sequencing Numbers - creating a number line
Patterns in the Environment
Exploring Counting Materials
Exploring Building Blocks
Social Skills
Making Meaningful Friends