Grinch

Poem: Did You Ever See?
Sight Words: play, did

Make sure you are practicing the sight words that are coming home. The ones your child should know at this time include:

• I
• a
• see
• the
• can
• we
• is
• at 
• to 
• me
• it
• look
• up
• my
• will
• have
• do
• has
• had
• got
• his
• she
• you
• he
• in
• play
• did

Comprehension Strategy: This week we answered questions about stories we read to recall parts of the story. One way to do this was to play "Punch a Bunch". When playing this students had to "punch" through the tissue paper covering a cup to find the answer that was hidden. They would then listen to the question about the story then answer with help from friends if needed. 

Accuracy: This week we learned about -op word family. Throughout the week we focused on skills including stretching out sounds and writing words, producing rhyming words, and identifying if words rhyme. Those lessons included:

• listening to the -op word family song.
• brainstorming a list of -op words. 
• completing write the slide by stretching out and writing -op words.

This week we continued learning about addition. We will review addition more next week too. 

Content: This week we had loads of fun with the Grinch! On Friday we ended the week with green everywhere! Students found out the that Grinch took over our morning message and he tried his hardest to sabotage our day. Good news- we still had a great day! We wore green on Friday, made Grinch headbands, watched the movie, and enjoyed green cookies and juice. We also brainstormed ways to make the grinch grin and made our Grinch craft. 

SEL
This week we learned the importance of honesty. We learned that honesty is when we tell the truth and it's not always easy to tell the truth. We started by reading "Lying Up a Storm". Whenever Levi doesn't like the truth, he kinda, sorta makes up other stuff to say. One day his mother explains to him that telling lies will damage the trust of his friends and make him very sad.

Then we talked about the Disney character Pinocchio and when he lies his nose grows. We used scenarios to decide if they were lying or telling the truth. If they were lying we added a block to pinocchio's face to make his nose grow.

Another day I told the kids that I had a treat for them. They opened up their hands and I gave everyone a pea. They were not pleased but excited when I told them that I was just kidding that this time I would have a treat to give them. But then I gave them another pea. Many did not believe me when I said I was going to give them a real treat. The third time I finally gave them a green jelly bean. They learned quickly that when you lie, others tend to stop believing you.

• December 18: 10 am Christmas Program 
• December 20: Polar Express Day (wear jammies)
• December 23-January 6: Winter Break