December 1-5

 Happy December!

It's hard to believe we are in the last month of 2025.  The Kindergarteners were very excited to see the calendar change over to December- as we know there are lots of exciting days and celebrations ahead.  This last week has been a chilly one, and we are continuing to become more and more independent in dressing ourselves to play outside. 

 Thank you families for sending your children in layers, with hats and mitts and boots.  I can tell lots of children have been practicing doing up the zippers and getting ready on their own.  They are doing fantastic.  We had lots of fun playing outside in the snow, sliding around, making snow angles and testing out the slide that seems more slippery than ever.

This week inside the classroom we learned about 2 new letters- Ss and Ii.  S for snow and I for ice- which was pretty fitting.  We practiced printing the letter, identifying words that begin with these letters and making the different letter sounds.  We read stories about snow and ice, and stories about animals that live in cold places.  In our journals we did writing about what we love to do in the snow and we created our own unique snowflakes with paint on watercolour paper.  

In math we completed our number 4 math journal work and learned about the number 5.  We read a story about penguins (and learned a little bit about penguins too).  We practiced subtilizing, writing the number 5 and representing it different ways.  We also went on a classroom number hunt to practice our counting and recording skills.  We are currently working on our own Penguin Counting book.  We will bring it home to share with you next week.  We also began to explore patterns! We know that a pattern is something that repeats again and again.  We spent some time engaging in Pattern centres- copying, extending and creating patterns with our classmates.

In the classroom we have been building with big blocks, stacking mini cups, playing board games and cards, exploring the new sugar bin sensory centre and doing lots of colouring and painting.  a big thank you goes out to our super parent volunteer who made us some lovely red and green playdoh!  We love to play with play doh in our classroom- and we definitely could use some help keeping up our play doh supply through the year.  If this is something that you could help with- please let me know.  I can even provide a recipe if needed.   

In the next 2 weeks we will be setting up a post office and package wrapping centre along with our pretend "Candy Cane Cafe".   If you have any extra envelopes, cards, wrapping paper, tape, ribbons or bows- please feel free to send them in.  We would love to use them for our dramatic play.

On Monday there will be photo retakes.

This week is our last book exchange before Winter Break

Thank you for all of your support.  Here are some pictures from our week: