Dear Parents,
Your
December Newsletter is ready. Our monthly theme for show and share is Celebrations and I'm looking forward to celebrating with you at our Winter Concert on December 16.
Please let me know if there's any accidental oversights or typos, particularly with students' special days.
Last week's early snow fall jump started our winter inquiries and we've been inspired:
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| Students connect animals to their tracks |
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| Using different tools, including their fingers, students recreate different animal prints |
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| Animals have been leaving prints in the sandbox too |
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| Here's the step by step to make a snow star. |
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| Our fall bulletin board has been replaced by snowpeople. |
We also focused in on some geometry and patterning:
The best way to build fine motor skills is to practice them. Operation has been very popular in our classroom this past week and I've noticed that many students who were initially frustrated have improved their skills.
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| Here, students use tweezers to count and separate the pom-pom pills from the doctor's prescriptions. |
