Reminders

“Read to Me” week was lots of fun!  Thank you to all who organized it and read to our class. 

The Field Trip Permission slips and money are due as soon as possible. 

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 have been finding words that begin with the same sounds, blending onset rimes, segmenting and blending CVC words and are continuing with letter recognition and sound association for those children who have not yet mastered the letters and sounds.  Please continue to review and work on these skills nightly. 

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

Math

We are counting and finding groups of numbers to 9, finding differences, finding similarities, writing numbers to 9, 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.  A huge component of this math program is teaching the children to problem solve and think aloud.  They also need to be able to explain why and how they chose the answer. 

Workshops

1.       Math/literacy/technology- IPADS- WE have used apps on the set of 6 ipads we checked out from computer lab to practice math and literacy skills.  WE LOVE THEM!!!! WE love them so much we are going to keep them for a while!

2.       Literacy- Sight word practice.  WE used letter stamps to practice writing sight words. 

3.       Literacy- Writing Workshop- WE used stickers to create a picture and then wrote about the picture using a color word as a describing word.

4.       Science- Animal covering classification.  The children sorted animals into groups based on body coverings.  Then they completed some recording sheets from science curriculum. 

5.       Math-Children sorted pictures to find things that were the same, exactly the same and different. 

^{Pumpkin Patch Field Trip coming up October 7th!  Remember if you want to volunteer to chaperone you must be cleared by the county.}