Yay Connor!
He was chosen to have "Lunch with the Principal" for the month of October!
They enjoyed board games, lunch and suckers for a
special treat!
A look at our learning this week...
Fundations: this week we learned the lowercase letter name, sound and formation for p and j.
Please use the following verbal prompts when practicing at home:
p-dow...n, up, around
j-down...n, curve up, dot
I wanted to share this really helpful letter sound video so you could hear how we teach the letter sounds to our students. Since we are all working with the kids on their sounds, and our kids are so literal, it probably helps everyone if we are all saying the sounds the same way. I know when I was a kid we pronounced the sounds like "kuh" and "duh", but that is not how it is taught anymore. We want to get away from adding "uh" to the end of words. This tends to make children think they should write "lu" instead of just "l" or "du" instead of just "d." I hope this video is helpful to you.
Look at all of the letters we've learned so far this year! Your child should know these lowercase letter names, sounds and correct letter formation.
Shared Reading: this week we read several books to help us learn our new spelling word is. We read Scarecrow Colors, Baby Animals and Opposites. Each book had the word "is" on every page. These books were added to their book box for more practice during Read to Self time.
We cleaned out our book boxes today and your child brought home 5 of these books I mention each week. These are books we've had awhile and are now for you to keep at home. I hope you enjoy listening to your little one read them to you!
I am taking a personal day on Monday. Due to this, I introduced their new spelling word today. Their paper to help practice at home is in their "Take Home Folder." It is the word the. We learned this is called a "trick word" because it begins with the digraph "th" and ends with an e, even though it sounds like a u. The English language is a funny one and not all words can be sounded out.
Writing Workshop: we read the book In My Heart to learn that the best stories to write about are the ones close to our heart. Little stories about our everyday life, such as going to the grocery store or playing board games with our family, are just as wonderful to write about as vacations or birthdays or holidays. We charted things close to our heart and still have room to add more ideas as we come up with them. Each child also received their own small "What can I write about?" chart to keep in their writing folder for when they are stuck on what to write about.
Ask your child what they wrote about this week during writing workshop time.
Math: check your child's Friday Folder for extra practice on the concepts we worked on this week. It's hard to believe, but we are only a few weeks away from the end of 1st trimester and parent teacher conferences.
Here are a few end of 1st trimester math benchmarks we will be checking soon:
*can your child count to 30 and write/recognize numbers 0-10 with correct formation?
*can your child recognize triangles, rectangles, circles and squares?
*can your child count a set of objects, up to 10 items, with one-to-one matching?
These are all things we have worked on over the course of 1st trimester in the classroom.
Art: Mrs. Starbuck chose our class to feature in the glass case outside her classroom. She was so proud of how hard they worked on this project and wanted to showcase them! Feel free to stop by and check it out sometime soon!
Library: every Tuesday, during library check out, Mrs. Fitch will be reading us one of the 2018 Building Block Nominees. After we've heard all 10 books we will get to vote on our favorite! This week we heard the fun book Everybunny Dance! We are so fortunate to be exposed to so many wonderful books!
Fun at school!
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