Newsletter 9-16-11

Reminders

“Read to Me” week is almost here!

Dress up as your favorite storybook character September 20, 2011.

If you wanted to be a guest reader for our class next week please let me know so I can put you on our schedule. 

We will count all the books read in class as part of their reading log.  The homework books will count as well as the books you read to them.  The log will come home Monday.  I also will count these books toward the Pizza Hut Book it! Program and they will get a free pizza for reading a specified number of books per month from October through March. 

Scholastic News

If you have not yet sent in the $6.00 for the “Let’s Find Out” magazine please do so as soon as possible.  The bill is here.  I have about half of the money at this point.  If I do not get the money, I will have to pay the balance out of my pocket.  Every little bit helps!   Thank you so much. 

Reading

We are rolling along in reading groups.  We are learning to track print, memorize texts, and read and find sight words from the book and the word wall. We are blending onset rimes, blending CVC words, finding words with the same beginning sounds, making letter sound associations, using strategies to solve unknown words, and some of us are taking Accelerated Reader tests!   We will start spelling tests in October.  The spelling words will be added to the homework packet. 

Sight words: we, can, go, to, the, like, was, is, I, a, my, red, yellow, blue and see. 

Math

We are counting and finding groups of numbers to 7, finding differences, finding similarities, writing numbers to 7, looking at patterns within the calendar, looking at what makes a group of 10, finding how many more we need to get next group of 10, learning the days of the week and the months of the year. 

Workshops

1.       Math- Thumbprint Number book to 10.  Children make thumbprints to correspond with the number. 

2.       Literacy- Rhyming Concentration-Children made a concentration game to take home and practice rhyming.

3.       Literacy- Writing Workshop- We read Scholastic News Magazine about school rules and wrote a comparison piece about home and school rules.  We discussed Constitution Day and how rules are important for us to have in society to keep us safe. 

4.       Science- Living- Non- Living- They sorted through dried pasta to find objects that were living or non living.  Then they used a recording sheet to draw a pair of objects that were each. 

5.       Math- Button Sorting.  They sorted buttons to find the differences in sizes.  Then they completed a sheet where they had to find a picture that showed five differences. 

^{Pumpkin Patch Field Trip coming up October 7th!  More information will follow.}