All About Winter!

Hello parents!  This week we are doing all things Winter!  What we're working on:

Reading  We are reading books about winter, weather, and arctic animals.  Primary focus is on penguins and polar bears.  We are doing KWL charts with facts we've learned about animals, as well as identify the author's purpose.  We will also read the Mitten, a story about a boy who loses his mitten and the animals that have another idea in mind for the mitten.  Your child will have his/her very own mitten to take home- ask your child to retell the story to you!

Language Arts  We are now adding adjectives to our writing.  This week's writings include: snowman descriptions, the Mitten (choose an animal that might crawl inside), and facts about penguins. 

Math  This week we are ordering numbers 0-10.  You can help with this task by creating a number line with several missing numbers and having your child fill in the spaces.  We will also identify an object in line by its ordinal position (first through tenth).  Have your child line up objects (toy cars, stuffed animals, hair clips, coins, buttons) and ask him/her to point to the object that is third, seventh, tenth, etc.

Science  During this nine weeks, we have learned to sort materials by observable properties (size, shape, color) and recorded our observations in a journal.  This week we will continue to sort objects by: temperature, weight, and texture.  Tomorrow we will try different ways to melt an ice cube!