We have started our unit on The Gingerbread Man. Along with reading the traditional version of the Gingerbread Man we also today read Gingerbread Cowboy to have a new and interesting twist. Yesterday we made Gingerbread Man out of paper plates and worked on identifying body parts and following directions. Today with Ms. Still we finished making our beautiful elves. Once they are all dry we will hang them around the classroom and enjoy the silliness of them.
Please look online to see your child's pictures. The information to access the pictures can be found in the e-mail sent.
Scholastic Book Fair
sales begin Monday, December 3! Students and families my shop the book fair
anytime between 8:00 – 3:00, Monday – Thursday. We are also open until 7:00 pm
on Tuesday, December 4. All family members are
welcome!
Payment for items may be made with cash, credit card or checks written to Scholastic Book Fairs.
Class
Party will be Wednesday December 19 at 9:30am and 12:00pm. Please let me know
if you would like to contribute a food or a game.
Ms. Brooke's Thoughts and Ideas
Time for family get together, traveling, and lots of
cooking. Please continue encouraging your child to socialize and greet new
friends, neighbors or family. This time of year lends itself to natural
sequencing activities in the kitchen, answering those “WHO, WHAT, and WHERE”
questions about new decorations in the community and upcoming events.
If your child is a soft talker or seems to lose volume when
speaking try the following:
·
Choose a machine (microphone, karaoke machine,
tape recorder or video recorder) that your child will enjoy using. Some
children like talking into a tape recorder and playing their words back in
higher volumes or watching themselves talk on the television. A great new way
to see themselves is using skype to talk to friends or relatives with the built
in camera on computers.
·
Pick a quiet place so they will not be
distracted while talking. Show them how to use the machine of their choice to
make words that can be heard. Have them say words they know into the machine.
Children enjoy songs and rhymes. Practice singing together into the machine,
alternating lines, or have them fill in words as you sing. You can read stories
into the machine together and have them label common words they may have seen
from the story.
·
Find recorded nursery rhymes or stories that you
child likes to encourage them to “talk” along with the recording. If it has
words they already says, they may try to say some new ones too. Computer games
or “sing along” DVD’s that show favorite characters as they play may get your
child to say words.
·
Use toys or activities that play your child’s
favorite music. When your child likes the music or videos, they are likely to
repeat the words. Songs like “wheels on the bus” encourage children to say words
and make sound effects. Singing is a fun way to help children be confident in
saying words out loud!
·
Play with sounds using empty paper towel rolls,
buckets, cheap dollar store microphones or homemade megaphones to amplify your
voices.
December Vocabulary:
Coats
Cookies
Lights
Tree
Candle
Gift
Dreidel
Star
Singing
Baking
Thursday, December 6- Please send in your items to decorate the cookie
Tuesday, Dec. 11- Cookie decorating day
Wednesday, Dec. 19- Polar Express Day! Have your student wear their pajamas to school!
Monday, January 7- Students come back
Monday, January 21- No School- MLK day
