Fall Party!

  A look at our learning...

Fundations: we learned the correct name, sound and letter formation for lowercase r and e this week. 

Please use the following verbal prompts (and make sure your child is saying these verbal prompts as well) when practicing at home:

r-down, up, curve

e-across, over, around, open

Shared Reading: we enjoyed some Halloween and Fall books and poems this week.  The books I see Halloween and The Colors of Fall featured our word wall words a, I and see.  They loved our fun and silly poems Three Little Witches and 5 Little Pumpkins. 

Next week's new spelling word:

at

Literacy Workstations: this week in the Friday Folder you will notice worksheets that your child completed.  These are activities they work on throughout the week during our literacy workstation time.  They focus on letters/letter sounds we are learning, our word wall words and more!  Not all workstations have worksheets to complete.  So if there aren't any in your child's folder from time to time, that just means they went to workstations that week that focused on other skills.  

Below is one of our new workstation tasks: Search & Tally.  Students search through books for specific word wall words.  When they find one, they tally on their paper.  A great way to practice words at home as well!

Writing Workshop: we are learning how to add words, in the form of labels, to our stories. To adults, it might be confusing as to why labeling is important, but it is a stepping stone to writing sentences and stories!  First, a child must be able to verbally tell a story (which they can all do), then they must be able to legibly draw a picture to match their verbal story (still working on this) and labeling comes next.  The labels help tell the story.  Once they are experts at this, we can move onto actual sentences.  Even a sentence in Kindergarten is considered a "story." Some students are already writing a sentence and that is great! However, they will still add labels to their picture in addition to their sentence. 

We also worked on a special writing activity that incorporated word wall words (I, am, a) and their Halloween costume! They LOVE anything and everything Halloween right now! 

Check out some of their great work below! 

Math: we focused on sorting and classifying objects, counting backwards from 10 and ST Math.  

At the end of 1st trimester, your child should be able to do the following:

*Count by 1's to at least 30

*Recognize numbers 0-10

*Write numbers 0-10 in order 

*Identify square, rectangle, triangle and circle

Can your child do these things? If not, they are great things to practice at home.

Fall Parties: we had at a blast at our Fall Party today! The kids have been looking forward to their first school party of the year! Thank you to our room parents for organizing and to all the parents who sent in supplies or volunteered to help at the party!  We enjoyed yummy snacks, decorated pumpkins and had fun with our classmates!  Here are a few photos.  Check our class Facebook page for more!

More fun at school this week