First week of December

For the first week of December, we began a new theme, the neighborhood! We learned about places that are near us: the police station, fire department, park...etc. we have used flash cards to know each place by sight. We also began working on association with things that belong in each place, such as a fire truck belongs at the fire department. We also have continued to practice our shapes and number skills. We use simple math to color by number. We also strengthen our fine motor skills by cutting projects and creating shapes. We have begun working very diligently on our Christmas performance. For our class song, we will be doing I'm a little snowman. Everyone agreed on Rudolph the red nosed reindeer for everyone to sing together! We have had great fun learning the dance and all the words. 

For phonics, we continue to work through the alphabet. We learn to differentiate lower case and upper case letters. We have worked up through letter S. The focus has been to strengthen our writing. We also use songs to learn new words for each letter. The kids love games that require their matching skills of objects to the correct letter. 

Our first project of the semester was a snow flake!!