January Newsletter

We've had a blast this month! We started the month off by learning all about Winter. Then, we learned all about Penguins and Polar Bears. 

The pretend play center was transformed into a Winter Wonderland with a snowmen, a skating rink, hot chocolate stand and snowballs. The students had so much fun pretend ice skating and having snowball fights. They dressed up in winter jackets and scarves. They also enjoyed completing a winter/not winter clothes sorting activity. 

The sensory bin was filled with fake snow and snowballs and winter trees, artificial snow and arctic animals were added to the block center. 

During our Math Groups, we continued to work on copying and extending patterns, following directions containing prepositions, number identification and counting. 

During our Literacy Groups, we worked on retelling stories, identifying letters and matching capital to lowercase letters and identifying letter sounds. 

We had fun with science and conducted 2 experiments. Our first was to see how penguins stay dry and the second was to see how polar bears stay warm. The kids had a blast! 

We read The Mitten, Snowmen at Night, Snowmen at Work, Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere, Penguins Love Colors, and Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? We worked hard on answering WH questions from the story and retelling the story. 

This week we started our Friendship Theme. We will continue this until Valentines Day and then we will begin learning about Community Helpers, a student favorite! :) 

Dates to Remember: 

2/20- School Closed
































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