Weekly catch up

Wow, this week flew by!  Especially with early release on Wednesday and me being absent tomorrow for a trip to Chicago.  My husband went to college and played football for Northwestern University, so we will be attending homecoming there this weekend.  I have a sweet group of kiddos and know they will do a great job for their substitute teacher tomorrow!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who donated food and books for "Make a Difference Week" this week.  The sweetest comment came from one student who said "I don't have a book to bring, but I'm making one on my own so that kids who don't have books like I do can have one."  Melt my heart! That is what this week is truly all about and shows how even the littlest of people can help this world be a better place!

Thank you for also donating skinny markers and more crayons to our classroom.  They are greatly appreciated by me and the kiddos!

A look at our week...

Fundations-we learned the letter name, letter sound and correct letter formation for lowercase p & j. The weekly packets are in the Friday Folder for extra reinforcement at home.

Shared Reading-we learned the tricky word "the" and read the book We See Halloween to help us. We will continue to work on "the" next week, but also add the word "can" to our word wall.  Your child's spelling test came home today; please help them practice any words they missed so they will be prepared for the weekly test next Friday.

Daily 5-we added a few new centers to our Daily 5 choices.  Ask your child about using MyOn reader on their ipads and computers.  They can access MyOn at home as well by going to www.myon.com  It's a great reading website! Their login is 29, followed by the 3 initials of their name, and 01.  So if I was a child mine would be 29dlc01.  Their password is their student ID number that they use all of the time. They should know their log-on but if they are having trouble just let me know and I can send it home for you.  We also added Osmo's as a center.  Ask your child about the Osmo's or feel free to Google them, they are super cool and we have 6 of them in our classroom!

Math-we are learning patterns, counting and numbers 0-10.  We will continue this next week as well.

Writing-we are continuing to work on adding words to our stories by saying words slowly and writing the sounds we hear to spell unknown words.  The more letter sounds we learn during Fundations time, the easier this will become!  Ask your child what they wrote about this week!

Your child's Friday Folder is full of papers that need to be filled out and returned as soon as possible next week.  One of the items is a Bookworms Club (if interested; it is optional) that Mrs. Croom and I are sponsoring for Kindergarteners.  We are so excited!  Check it out!