January Newsletter

 JANUARY

      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 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. 

Last 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! :)