January 13-17

Letter bags
We are off to a great start with our letter bags!  Thank you moms and dads for helping them with their bags.
Our next letter will be the letter "m" for the week of January 21-24.

Stars

Twinkle, twinkle look at out little stars.  We made stars fizzle. We painted stars.  We have looked at stars in Kaleidoscopes. We had fun exploring stars!

 Snow and Ice 
Well if it's not going to snow outside, let's make it snow inside!  We also had fun exploring with ice this week.  Winter where are you?

 Pink Tower 
This month we will be introducing more of our Montessori materials.  Look at how great they are doing with the pink tower.

 The Snowy Day
After reading The Snowy Day we painted a snowy scene and talked about what we like to do in the snow.  They all want to build a snowman.  Maybe this weekend they can!

Upcoming dates to remember 

No School Monday, January 20th- MLK Day
Wednesday, January 22nd - Bring a stuffed bear day

Please mark your calendars for HCA's 2020 Auction is

"A Night in Philly" on Saturday, February 29th.

Have a great weekend!

January 6-10

Welcome back!

Happy New Year 

I hope everyone had a fantastic break filled with family and friends.

The children were so happy to see one another (and maybe Mrs. Morgan and me)!  I was so happy to see them! I missed them.

I want to thank everyone again for your wonderful gifts and warm wish. They made my Christmas seem brighter.

This week we spent getting back into the swing of things.  We have rearranged our classroom and started working from the shelves independently.

Shape Work
We started our week off with some dot art shape fun. 
Triangle, Circle, and square.

Art

We enjoyed water painting together.

Stars

We had fun making star art.  We put stars on our ceiling to look at while we nap.  We also used  a projector to put stars, planets, and rockets on our walls and ceiling.

  January is national stargazing month.  So we will be be doing several star activities through out the month.  Unfortunately, I can't take them out stargazing at night, so I hope that you will have the opportunity to go out with your child.

Letter of the week

 Monday, January 13 we will be starting our letters.  We will be doing one letter a week. 

Our first letter will be S for stars and snow.  Each week I will be sending a bag home with your child to  fill with objects beginning with the letter.  Please check your child's backpacks for more information.

Jackets 
If the weather permits, we do try and take the children out everyday. Please make sure that your child's mittens and hat have their names on them as well as their jackets.   I see that Santa brought some new ones for our boys and girls.

Dec. 9-13

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I'll work, I'll run, I'll sing, I'll pray.......

Music

Music has surround us all week.  We have been playing instruments in Class. We have been practicing for our Christmas show.  But nothing beats our music time with Mrs. Clay

Run, run, as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm in HCA land!

Community time

We love being part of a big family who take care of us and feed us Churros as we celebrate a Mexican Christmas.

Pinata Fun!!!

Santa's Work Shop

We have been sanding, hammering and putting together nuts and bolts together.  Santa we are ready to help at the North Pole.

 Art Time

Book Box

Our first Scholastic Box arrive today.  It was like Christmas!!!  I was able to order 20 new books for our classroom.  Let the reading begin.

• Up- Coming Dates
• The Christmas Show is Wednesday, December 18th at 6:00 p.m.  See Mrs. Barrera's email for more details.  Please wear your Sunday best.
• Grandparents Day is Thursday, December 19th.  The day will begin with the Christmas Show at 9:00 a.m. and end with a snack with Santa.  This is an event for students and their grandparents only.  Please wear your Sunday best.
• Friday, December 20th is our pizza party. It is not to late to send in your $3.  Please have your child wear red or green to celebrate the day.
• Christmas break is Monday, December 23rd - Monday, January 6th.  Classes will resume on Tuesday, January 7th.
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• Reminders
• Don't forget to pack a spoon, fork, and/or a napkin
•  in your child's lunchbox.
• Names on everything
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Remi

December 2-6

 'Tis the season to be busy!  We work, we play, and we sing all day!

Elf on the Shelf

Look who has come to visit us from the North Pole, Blaze and Elsa!  They have been keep an eye on us as we are working in our classroom.  Santa would be so proud.

Building

 Building blocks can help boost creativity, block play encourages children to match, count and sort. Also, blocks usually come in various sizes that can be stacked in many different arrangements. When a child puts two smaller blocks together he gets one bigger block to use – it is a fantastic way how to introduce the meaning of big and small, as well as half and whole. Matching, counting, sorting – these are just a few concepts taught in nursery, preschool and kindergarten, which you can continue teaching your child while playing!

Art

Oh Christmas Tree ........  

Tree Decorating 

It takes fine motor skills to put these ornaments on our classroom Christmas tree.  

Music

December is a month filled with beautiful music.  We love listening to Christmas music while we work and we love making our own music.

Santa's Helpers

If Santa needs any extra help, we are ready.  This week we learn how to sand wood and next week we are going to learn how to hammer!

First Grade Visit

We had special visitors this week. Our HCA first grades came down to share gingerbread cookies with our class. They watched to see what part of the gingerbread man the children would eat first, head or toes, and then made graphs in math class from the results.  Heads won!

Up-coming activities and events 

Dec 18- Christmas Concert 

Dec 19 - Grandparents Day

Dec. 20 - Red and Green Day/ pizza lunch

Reminders:

Family pictures 

Container with lid for drums