Welcome Back update

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a great break, and wonderful holidays.

Did you hear about our class pet?  Mealworms!  We will be studying the mealworms, and learning about their life cycle.  They will soon turn to pupa and then darkling beetles.  I"ll post pictures shortly.  We will learn about other animal life cycles in science too.  And we are starting to research bears in media.

Our winter reading assessment window opened so we will be testing reading levels.  Updated results will be included on your child's report card.  The marking period ends January 22 and report cards will go out the following week.

This week we are reading the Shoemaker and the Elves and writing about the story.

We are decomposing numbers in math.  For example, 1 and 5 is 6, 2 and 4 is 6.  This  is our first introduction to adding and subtracting.

Once again, thank you again for the wonderful holiday gifts and well wishes for my son.  The recovery was tough, a full 10 days and about 5 days before he was eating, but we made it through and he goes back to Indiana this weekend.

Remember, if you can, to send in a class snack to share.  We are running low.

Have a great week.

I will be out next week....

I wanted to let you know that I will be out next week.  My son is coming home from college and having surgery on Monday, so I am taking those three days off to be with him. 

My sub is Ms. Silbiger.  She has been here before and in kindergarten many times.  Your children know her and are always happy to see her.

As for the kids, they will be enjoying a couple of days rotating between the kindergarten classrooms for fun winter activities!

Have a great winter vacation.

Mrs. Goldberg

A Great Field Trip

We had a great time at Tobys Theatre today.  We saw The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs.  Your child could tell you the story but just in case...The wolf was making a cake for his granny and needed a cup of sugar.  He went to his neighbors house (the first pig in a house of straw).  He didn't answer.  Just then the wolf felt a sneeze coming on so he huffed and he snuffed and when he sneezed, he blew the house down, killing the pig.  So he ate him.  Ironically, the same thing happened at the second little pigs house which was build with sticks.  At the third pigs house, remember the wolf still needed his sugar, he was huffing and snuffling and the cops came to see what the commotion was.  The wolf was arrested.  The play today was a continuation of the book.  It was the trial of the wolf.  We heard from the third little pig and and an eye witness and from the wolf.  At the end of the trial, we got to vote whether we thought the wolf was innocent or guilty.  We voted not guilty so the the play ended with the wolf being set free.

Toby's Theatre Field Trip

Tomorrow, December 15.

I will have a snack for the kids when we get there so need to pack one.  We will be back for lunch.

Seed Experiment

We are starting our seed experiment today.  We wrote the materials needed in our experiment journal yesterday.  Today we will write our hypothesis and plant the seeds.  Some seeds will get water and sunlight, some just water and some just light.  Its a long process, hopefully we will see some growth before winter break.  If not, I'll take them home and bring them back so we can see the seeds grow full cycle.  We will record our observations in our journals and then write our conclusion.

PAJAMA DAY

To celebrate our last day with our teddy bears, we are having pajama day tomorrow.  Have your child come to school in their pajamas (no slippers, please).

Gingerbread Cookies

Next week we will be decorating gingerbread cookies with our reading buddies - Ms. Taylor's 3rd graders.  We are purchasing the cookies but asking both classes to donate either icing or bags of candy.  If you are able to, please send in a tube of white or colored icing or a bag of candy like skittles, m&ms or licorice by Wednesday, Dec. 16.

Thanks