Hills-Beaver Creek Elementary School

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News from Kindergarten at H-BC

For the week of Dec. 12-16

  • our theme was gingerbread man
  • read several different variations of the gingerbread man books.  We read: Gingerbread Man, Gingerbread Fred, Gingerbread Cowboy, Gingerbread Girl and Gingerbread baby.
  • charted the similarities and differences between all the gingerbread stories.
  • in phonics we learned about “bossy r” in words (ur, ir, and er words).
  • talked about the vowels and learned that they are needed in words to “glue” our words together.
  • in centers we had report card testing for 2nd quarter, made gingerbread man button books, had a Christmas listening center, and used stamps to fill in beginning, middle, and end sounds in words.
  • learned a new word wall word for “Wonderful Word Wednesday”.  We learned the word he.  Ask me how to spell this word and the chant to go with it!
  • continue to practice writing letters in our Handwriting Without Tears workbooks.
  • conference with our teachers about our journal writing.  Ask me what my teacher wants me to improve on!
  • learned about the color white and the song to go along with it.
  • completed our 2nd quarter writing assessment.  We have all made BIG improvements from the first quarter.  Look at all the words I know how to write now J
  • made gingerbread man glyphs*filled out a gingerbread man order form and decorated gingerbread men according to the number of M&M’s, red hots, and raisins that we “ordered”.

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