Weekly update

What a GREAT Halloween party today!  Thank you to our room parent coordinators, Jackie Seymour and Mara Thomas, for their leadership and the MANY families who came to help out. The kids had a blast! I will post more pictures from today once I get them uploaded.

A look at our week...

Fundations: we learned the letters l, h, k

Shared Reading-our new word wall word was can.  We read the books My Dog and I See Halloween to help us with our word wall words.  Please check your child's backpack for their weekly spelling test AND our most up to date word wall list to help you practice at home.  

Next week we will NOT learn a new word.  We will be incorporating a science unit on bones and muscles into our Shared Reading time; therefore reading books about those subjects.  We will pick back up with a new spelling word in a week or two.  Keep reviewing the old ones in the meantime!

Daily 5-ask your child what Daily 5 activities they worked on this wee.  They are especially loving MyOn and Osmo center.

Math-the children are doing great at creating, extending and copying patterns.  We will wrap up our pattern unit next week in a fun way!  Craig Adams, who is in charge of the CPS STEAM bus, is coming out to team teach with myself and Mrs. Fitch on Thursday.  We are going to use Ozobots (Google them to find out more) to help us work with patterns.  This is a STEM activity (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).  I will post photos and videos after we are finished.  

Writing-ask your child how they can use two of their fingers as a word spacer between words when they write! We have been practicing this at school this past week and continuing to sound out words to help us spell (this will be on-going).  

Have a fun and safe Halloween!  Remember, NO SCHOOL on Monday.  It is a teacher workday to prepare for parent teacher conferences.  We will be working on report cards that day.