Week 16, Letter Aa, short a sound, POLAR EXPRESS and CHRISTMAS!

Oh what a week we had before Christmas break!

 But before we go any further, I am sure you have heard there is 

NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, January 6, due to the cold!

Tune into KTTC or your favorite source for news to find out about TUESDAY as I noticed some school starting late.

Monday was our afternoon concert!

We spent the  morning creating a Christmas count down

with paper chains.

Not sure why this photo is "snowing" 

but it is pretty cool

Here we are at the afternoon concert....

Tuesday morning we began new morning challenges:

Gingerbread counting to 30...

Gingerbread numeric matching...

Gingerbread abc order...

Tuesday's Centers included:

A very fun bow subtraction game...

Christmas words TOP spinning game...

Reindeer Beginning Sounds...

10 frames Santa cards...

Hidden Teens Search...

Tuesday evening we met again for our Christmas Concert!

My, don't they look lovely!

Wednesday's Centers:

Stocking Read the Room...color words!

Polar Express Ticket patterns...

Santa's Sleigh Tallies...

Christmas Card writing...

Santa's Sack beginning sounds...

Thursday was POLAR EXPRESS day!

We wore our pajamas to school, read the book, and watched the movie...and of course, 

we made HOT CHOCOLATE~ in the crock pot!

Wow, did our room smell great!

Here is part of our Hot Chocolate bar...

MMMMMMM!!!!!!

Our igloo sure was a cozy spot to read...

Here are some kiddos just reading for fun...
S-A-N-T-A!

Friday afternoon our awesome parent volunteers hosted

a lovely Christmas Party for us!

Wow!  That was so much fun!

The next time we will ask for helpers is for our 100 day celebration coming up in February.

Here are a few pics of our O'Duggan Holiday Celebration...

We stop  by the Christmas house is Winona every year.

Thank you,  Johnson's for the show!

Gingerbread Houses....

 Rotary Lights...

Favorite Gifts...

Pippin recycling the gingerbread houses....

Science Museum Visit
(this is my son's fiance's family, too!)

A little painting class with Mrs. Pilger...

And bundling up for our daily hikes with my hubbie... 

Hope you are staying warm during our cold snap!
Here's our week of January 7-10
Reading: Letter Hh, star word 'a', segmentation (/c/ /a/ /t/=cat)
Math: Geometry 2d shapes
Science: Earth's water
Social Studies: All About Time (today vs. the past)
Theme: The Mitten

Big News: Please send your child prepared for the cold winter weather...even if we do not go out for recess
 (above 0 degrees with windchill factored in) 
I need to send them home bundled up, especially bus kids.
Coats, hats, mittens, boots, snow pants are all required EVERYDAY...
please label EVERYTHING...especially boots as the kids take them off before entering the gym in the morning and that's a lot of boots in one area!