Diary of a First Year Montessori Kindergarten Teacher - Week 19

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Good morning Montessori Kindergarten Families,

Happy Christmas Eve morning! Finishing up the last days of 2018, we have so much to be thankful for. The friendships that have been built and the love and care shown in our community have been a beautiful to experience. We hope that your family enjoys this time together as we reflect on this school year and look forward to all that 2019 has to offer. Thank you for the

generosity of your gifts, donations and time in the classroom.

Monday:

Montessori Beads — what
 numbers make ten/number bonds

Writers Workshop:
 Informative text: scarves

Video: History of Santa Claus —

Art/Cultural — complete Dreidels/discussion about the Hebrew letters displayed on the dreidel

Music Program practice

Character Trait: Helpful

Sing Christmas songs

Tuesday:

Music Program Practice

Finish Writers Workshop: scarves

New writing lesson: read/spell/draw

Group Art Activity: Sight words- color by sight words Ornament

Sound Table/Reading with me

Wednesday:

finish all holiday projects

Jingle jog

Language review: rhyming/what does not belong/beginning sounds — 2 person groups

Mini Art Walk — dreidels/ornaments/Christmas Cats

Sound Table/Reading with me

Read/Spell/Draw

Book: “Jack B. Ninja” — what is the setting of the story

Choose your math

Thursday:

½ Day

Color by Sight word/Christmas Tree

Writers Workshop: Mittens — topic sentence/structure of a sentence/create your own sentence

Friday:

½ day

Snowman collage/directed drawing

Movie: Frosty the Snowman 

Enjoy the break dear families! We will miss your kiddos and look forward to coming back fresh and ready to begin our adventures as we talk about preparing for first grade at our parent teacher conferences the FIRST WEEK back at school. Make sure to sign up on the link sent in the prior email.

Warmly,

Mrs. Norgren