* November Friendship Feast

Thanksgiving is celebrated in November. We learned about the first Thanksgiving. We talked about the traditions we have in our family during Thanksgiving. Every day at our school we eat lunch together as friends. So, we say we have a Friendship Feast everyday!'
Our teacher says we are good eaters! We make good choices when we go to the fruit and salad bar.
We are healthy kids, and good friends forever!
To Help us learn about Thanksgiving, we clicked here.

* Dads and Donuts

Today we welcomed our Dad to school. The PTA provided donuts and juice. It was fun to see all the friends and their dads.

My Dad
Original Author: Wendy Silva

My Dad is one of those special Dads that every kid dreams about.

He loves me unconditionally, and for this I have no doubt.

My Daddy loves to spend time with me no matter what it is I do.

And I seem to have much more fun when I can count on two.

He is the person that can cheer me up when I am feeling sad.

He is my friend and my teacher and I am proud to call him Dad.

* Courtesy: Marvin and Jessie

Every month, the a group of teachers and staff members at our school perform a play for us. They plays are about building good charactor. There are always 2 characters that stay the same. They are Marvin and Jessie, two kids who make good character choices while they are growing up.



This month, our teacher was in the play. She was Madame Magenta. Her character created a machine that would take a person into the future. Marvin and Jessie were acting rude. Madame Magenta asked if Marvin and Jessie would like to go into the Magnificant Future Machine. When they went into the machine they found out that if they were rude when they were kids, they would probably be rude when they were grown up.

This play taught us to work on courtesy so that we can be courteous kids now and courteous adults in the future.

We thank our teacher for taking time to teach us to be courteous each and every day.

We look forward to learning each month from Marvin and Jessie!

Math Resources

Worksheets for shapes, matching, equivalence, more, and less
To recognize shapes and practice matching, you can either use ready-made worksheets or workbooks, or make some of your own.
If you make your own, you can just draw three circles on a page and then 2-5 triangles on a page, and ask the child to match each circle with a triangle by drawing a line from shape to shape. Vary the shapes and the amounts. Sometimes the amounts should be equal, sometimes not.
Another variation is to ask the child to draw. First make some sticks, circles, squares, or other shapes on a page, and encircle them. Make for the child a big "bubble" to draw in, and ask the child to draw either the same amount, one more, or one less.
Also have your child practice writing numbers on paper.

You can find lots of different kinds of basic kindergarten workbooks at LearningThings.com. You don't really need anything too fancy to practice these concepts, so workbooks from many different publishers can work equally well.
Singapore Math's EarlyBird Kindergarten math is praised a lot. Dorling Kindersley's kindergarten math workbook is of good quality as well.

There are of course several fine websites that have free worksheets for kindergarten math, such as:
Kidzone.ws kindergarten math worksheets
Maths is fun kindergarten worksheets
Kindergarten math worksheets from About.com

* Shape Up!

We learn to draw circles. We use the circles to make a picture. This is our friend. She used circles to make a butterfly. She is a happy learner!

Click here to go to a shape snip-it!