November 20th

On Wednesday, we had LOTS of guests visit our classroom.  Teachers and administrators from around the district came to our classroom to learn with and from our class through a "Teaching Lab".  The team of staff, along with myself, planned a math lesson and then came into our classroom and taught it.  We had about nine adults in the room to do the lesson.  I was so proud of the kids!  They did an amazing job and the other staff were amazed with what they were capable of doing and how well they followed directions.  Most of the teachers were from middle school or upper elementary grades.  It was fun to see how they can learn from our youngest students.

Literacy Bags

Literacy Bags are in your folder today, however, there will not be any new books coming home next week due to the shortened holiday week.  

Upcoming Field Trip

We will be going to the Grand Rapids Public Museum/Planetarium on Monday, Dec. 8th.  We will arrive at the museum about 9:40am and will be leaving the museum at 1:00pm.  Students will need to bring a lunch that day as we will be eating at the museum.  Parents attending should meet us at the museum by 9:35am.

Jan 27th--The Grand Rapids Symphony Lollipop Concert-

Reading

Theme:  Pushes and Pulls

*The job of the author and illustrator

*Letters/Sounds:  Ll,   Hh,  Nn,  Ii

*Building words with known letters

*Taking picture tours/walks through a book

*Using an illustration to tell a story

*Make connections to our own lives when we read a book

Sight Words:   it     is     in

Review Words:  a      the     and       go    he   had    I     see   you    has   we   of     at    to

Writing

*We are writing a book about how we move

*Using sight words and known sounds to write simple sentences

*Capitalizing the first word in a sentence

*Space between words

*Period at the end of the sentence

Math

*Addition with sums to 5 and 10

*Greater than/less than/equal to

Reminders

*Send a snack daily

*Library books are returned on Thursdays

*Literacy Bags returned on Mondays

*Send a water bottle daily

*Once a month ice cream Fridays are free for all :)

Take a Peek at our Week

The kids think Pumpkin Jack should now be called Santa Jack with his beard of mold!