November 7th

This week we started reading and learning about different ways we use pushes and pulls.  The class discovered that they do many things on the playground that are considered pushes and pulls.  We are learning how we can change the speed and direction of a push as well.  

Literacy Bags

Our books are becoming more challenging.  Many of the words are decodable based on the sounds we have been learning.  Be sure to read my note in the bag to help guide your child as they practice at home.  One of the tricky words in this week's books was the /s/ ending on the word /taps/.  It's OK if your child is struggling with these stories at first.  Remember we are just getting started on this road to becoming fluent readers.  Keep encouraging them along the way and make reading time fun, even if that means you read some of the challenging words to them!  We are trying to instill the love of reading!  

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.

The following parents were drawn as lead volunteers for the museum and will not need to pay admission upon arrival:  Kate Clark, Colleen Wickerham, Samantha Kaminski and Rachael McCarty.  We will still need a lot of helpers, so if you did get drawn and are able to attend, we would love to have you meet us there!  Thank you all!

Jan 27th--The Grand Rapids Symphony Lollipop Concert--The following parents were drawn to attend:

Kaylee Smith and Brooklyn Cowan.  

We will have many more opportunities for help at upcoming field trips.  I appreciate all of you willing to help!

Reading

Theme:  Pushes and Pulls

*Locating parts of a book (title, cover, table of contents)

*Letters/Sounds:  Ff  and Dd 

*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:   at    to

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

Writing

*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

*Number sequencing 0-10

*Number formation 0-10

*Greater than/less than/equal to

*Two dimensional shapes--circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, hexagons

*Sorting and classifying objects 

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

Subitizing, counting and number formation

Segmenting sounds we hear in words

We LOVE our library time!

Letter formation

Reading our decodable stories

Halloween Fun!

Word building

Pumpkin Jack is starting to grow some "fluff"!

We are going to observe what happens to him throughout the year.

Have a great weekend!