Fun Filled Friday!

Here are some pictures from our busy Friday!  

The birthday boy!  Happy birthday Caelan!  Hope you have a fabulous day! 

 Enjoying their special snacks! 

 An early birthday celebration! Maddie will turn 6 over vacation.  We hope she has a great day!

 A visit from The Grinch!  Some of us were brave enough to take a picture with him! 

 A class of reindeer!  

 Gingerbread houses!  We had a great time making our houses with our third grade buddies!  

 School wide sing a long!  The kids were exhausted by the end of the day! 

We hope everyone has a wonderful vacation and a happy & healthy New Year!  See you in 2017!!

Mystery Reader

Our first Mystery Reader came today and the children were very excited!  I read the clues to the children and Olivia knew right away it was her mom!  She was beyond excited!  I have three more people who have signed up to come in and read but would love more.  Let me know if you are interested.  If you do not have the form I had sent out earlier, I can send a new one so you can write down some clues about yourself.

I would love for each child to have someone come in.  

 A little addition game with the Grinch after we listened to the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  We also discussed story elements and the message from the book.  I loved when one student told us the message was, "Christmas is not about presents it is about being with your family!"  So very true!!  

Some exciting things happening this week!  

New England Percussion Ensemble

The children sang along to some holiday songs.

Work Boards

 Matching letter and beginning sounds. 

 Decorating trees with colored lights as we solve addition problems.  

 Mary enjoyed some fine dining with a few friends.

 Rhyming reindeers 

 Lacing stockings - great fine motor work

 Math practice

 More tree decorating & addition 

 Nearby Numbers

 addition practice with cubes and dry erase boards

 Math games ~ decision making & problem solving 

 Star of the week!  Sophia did a fabulous job sharing her favorites, family pictures, Elsa doll and special book.  She was very excited to bring in her items and let the children guess what was inside the "show and tell" bag by giving them clues.  Great job Sophia! 

Happy birthday AJ!  AJ celebrated his birthday on Wednesday!  Hope you had a terrific day! 

A busy week....

 We learned about Hanukkah. The children colored, cut and sequenced numbers written on the candles of the Menorah. 

 We filled stockings with short vowel sounds.  

 We sorted syllables. 

 We practiced our handwriting.  We have learned all upper case letters now!  We will move onto lower case letters in January!  

 We worked to strengthen our fine motor skills. 

 We played games! 

 We wrote about what we would do if Santa was stuck in a chimney. We read a story about Santa getting stuck in a chimney and sang a new song. 

 We practiced our addition.  We were given parts and had to find the sum or total.  At another center we were given the sum and had to figure out different ways to make the number.

 We worked on other math concepts as well. 

 We played at legos & the doll house. 

 We made a special tree for our families!  The children worked hard on this and some even added additional details.  

 more addition practice

 An addition game using dice and pattern blocks to make a picture.  

Hope you have a fabulous weekend!  Stay warm!!