December 10th, 2010

Holidays Around the World Week!

We will be having a very full week next week!  We will be traveling all around the world to learn a little about other Holidays.  We will learn some of their traditional holiday colors, some of their symbols, and some of their traditional holiday foods.  Below is a list of when we will be learning each.  If possible, try to have your child dress in the traditional colors of that holiday!

Monday- Hanukkah (Have your child wear: blue, white, silver)
Tuesday- Kwanzaa (Have your child wear: red, black, green)
Wednesday- Las Posada (Have your child wear: red, green)
Thursday- Christmas (Have your child wear: red, green)
Friday- North Pole (Have your child wear: PAJAMAS!) 

Let me know if you have any special knowledge about any of these holidays!

Wild Learning in Kindergarten   

*Heart word of the week: play

*This week we continued to practice using adjectives in our writing.  We also refer to them as pink words.  We also wrote about where the gingerbread man hid.


*In math, we were introduced to pennies.  We now have a math center involving counting and comparing pennies.  We also learned about growing patterns.  With our growing pattern, we were also introduced to counting by 2's.

*We read a book this week called, Duck on a Bike.  With this book, we practiced figuring out the story structure, characters, and plot.

*We continued with gingerbread this week.  We made gingerbread glyphs.  Glyphs represent information in a special way.  For example, girls colored their gingerbread man's eyes pink and the boys colored the eyes blue.  Also, buttons were colored red if we were 5 and green if we are 6.  Once we finished with our glyphs, we sorted our glyphs as many ways as we could think.