Happy November

A look at our learning this week...

Fundations: we learned the lowercase v and w this week.  They are the first "slide" letters we have learned.

Please use the following verbal prompts when writing at home:

v-slide down, slide up

w-slide down, slide up, slide down, slide up

Bakr leading us with our sound cards

Sutton leading us with our vowel sounds

Shared Reading: we read the book Look at me.  This book had several of our word wall words on every page: at, am, I,a.  We have now learned 7 word wall words!  Check your child's folder to see how they did on this week's spelling test.  I notice many of them are spelling the word am backwards.  I'd suggest working extra hard on this one.  

I will not introduce new words next week, due to only 3 days of school.  We will have a test on Friday, but will be review of the 7 words we have already learned.  So this would be a good week to really practice, practice, practice!  Make it fun, use the "50 ways to practice sight words" paper I sent home a few weeks ago to switch it up!  

Rhyming: we work on rhyming every day and I notice it is a bit tricky for my class.  They are pretty good at finding two pictures that rhyme, but have a harder time HEARING rhyme.  For example:  we do an activity where I verbally say three words and they are supposed to reply back with the TWO words that rhyme.  I might say sock, sun, clock and hope they reply back sock, clock.  Many are getting rhyme and beginning sound confused.  Many want to say sock, sun rhyme.  We will keep practicing, but any extra practice like this at home is always great!  

Daily 5: we learned a few new Daily 5 centers this week! Ask your child about the Search & Tally center and the Word Wall Cut & Paste center.  They may even have some of these papers in their Friday Folder.  Both of these centers help us practice our spelling words.  

Writing Workshop: we are really working hard on sounding out words to write our story.  We are also working on beginning our sentences with an uppercase letter and ending with a period.  

Math: we worked some more on shapes, writing our numbers to at least 10 and positional words.  We watched this cute video about positional words.Click here

Making shapes with ribbon

Fun things this week...

Mr. Moody shared a spooky flannel board story with us!

Ms. Amy, our head lunch lady, found a salamander outside of school and shared it with us in our classroom!  The kids loved it!  He was so tiny!

Always a good feeling to complete a puzzle!

Coach C would love photos of your child being active for his bulletin board!  Feel free to send one in with your child at any time!  I will be sure to get it to Coach C!