Dear Families,
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: Now that we finished previewing the alphabet keep books, we are starting to put the letters and sounds together to form words. This week, we started our writing journal on Monday. Every Monday we write in our journals. We always complete the front page together and then students have free writing on the back, as long as they stay on topic. We learned why it is important to write the date on our journal entries, and we practiced writing a complete sentence about Fall altogether. This is an opportunity for me to teach students what a complete sentence looks and sounds like. We talked about how there is a capital letter in the beginning of sentences and a period at the end. We also used a “two-finger space” or some used their erasers to mark spaces between words. Students illustrated their journals and on the back, they tried to write their own sentences about Fall.
• Literacy Centers: Our letter of the week was M. You can see our computer center illustrations for the letter M in our website, under “Classwork.” For listening center, we tried writing and drawing about our favorite part in the story. It is similar to what they do in their homework each week with our library journal and books.
• Social Studies: Congratulations to Madhav, who was chosen as our fifth Star of the Week! You can read about him in the “Classwork” section of our website, and click under “Star of the Week.”
• Math: We worked on the next chapter in math, which was more on patterns. We are practicing being able to say the patterns and use letters to identify the patterns. Students have to be able to create their own patterns as well. Please look over your child’s work and practice having them show you different patterns.
• Computer Lab: This week we continued working on our fall patterns page in Kidspiration. We used different fall foods to finish our patterns, and then we made our own patterns at the very bottom. You can see these fall pattern pages on our website, under “Classwork.”
• Science: We continued talking about Fall. In addition to learning about fall leaves, we also talked about how some animals prepare for winter. Some animals, like squirrels, collect food in the fall, or other animals, like bears, may get ready to hibernate. We also have been talking about pumpkins and we learned a song called, “5 Little Pumpkins!”
• Buddies: We saw our buddies on Thursday. We read the story, “Rainbow Fish,” which is about a beautiful fish who finds that sharing and being happy is more important than being selfish and lonely. We talked about how being kind to others is important. Then, we made our own fish using tissue paper and foil.
• Art: Today in Friday centers, we made handprints of a spider and we also made a pumpkin project.
• PE: We practiced skipping, jumping, hopping, galloping, and balance skills!
On Monday, we will be visiting the book fair. At the book fair, we get to browse all the books, and students try to write down a “wish list” of titles they would like. They bring home these wish lists to you so that if you go back to the library, you will know which books to purchase. If you are able to help write titles for the children, please come to the library at the following times. The more help, the better, so anyone is welcome.
AM Book Fair Visit: 9:10am – 9:30am
PM Book Fair Visit: 1:10pm – 1:30pm
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