December is Here!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. I have 23 extra little ones to be thankful for this year. I have updated the blog with many pictures for you to see. Throughout this post, you will see what we are working on right now in kindergarten. I am excited to share with you your child's progress at his/her conference!

Ipods have been introduced to the kindergartners! They are very excited to practice reading and math skills with those fun apps!

In math, we are working on reading our numbers 0-31. As we start applying those basic math skills, it's important that your child can read and write numbers 0-31. After winter break, we begin more challenging things like addition and subtraction and money. The pictures below show the kids practicing reading their numbers while racing to draw the parts of a turkey. 

Winter-like weather is here! Please make sure your child has all the necessary pieces to stay safe and warm at recess. When it's time for recess, I really push the kids to get all their recess gear on by themselves. I think this class is my most independent so far when it comes to getting on all that gear!

Here's pictures of the kids as they began to work with money. We've discussed the characteristics of the four basic coins and practiced identifying them by those characteristics as we sorted them. 

Recently in math, we practiced comparing numbers. We usually play top-it by finding the number that is "more." This time, we practiced finding the number that is "less."

We made pattern block turkey feathers as we practiced identifying shapes and counting, reading, and writing numbers.

We also reviewed the kindergarten patterns (AB, AAB and ABC) as we created patterns for our partners to describe and extend. We even got to review the names of our shapes!