News 9-7-12

Reminders

Fund raiser is in full Swing.  Sell that wrapping Paper! 

Thank you to the Grandparents that came to Breakfast with them.  It made their day!

Morning work that comes home unfinished and unchecked does not have to be returned.  It is usually something they have out at first to do while the other children come in from breakfast and we watch the news.  They have been writing in their journals and workbooks and those will come home as they finish.  The writing pieces that are completed during workshop are kept for the writing portfolio.  I will send home anything not used at the end of the year.  So it may seem like not much is coming home but we are working hard and I have already seen so much growth!

 

Don’t forget to save those Box Tops.  We have been getting a number of them in.  Keep up the great work. 

Scholastic Magazine money is due.  Please send it in if you have not already done so.  Make checks out to: Scholastic.  The amount is $6.00. 

BABY PICTURES NEEDED

Don’t forget Baby Pictures!

Literacy

We added the words “the” and “go” this week to the words we have already been practicing.  We have also been learning the color words: red, blue and yellow. 

We continue to build stamina learning to “read to self” during daily 5.  We are building that stamina in the “work on writing” segment and we have introduced “Read to Someone” Ask them about EEKK.  When we have learned each section of Daily 5 Reading groups will begin!  YAY!

Homework

Homework will start next Monday.  Each week there will be a reading log and a couple of books selected for them to read with and to you. Have your child read the book and you sign each night.  There is a spot for Thursday night reading that I included so that if by some chance you do not get a chance to turn it in on Thursday, you can log time on Thursday and turn it in on Friday.   Homework goes home on Monday unless we are out on a Monday then it will be Tuesday.  It is due on Thursday but if you have something going on that week and you can’t turn it in on Thursday, they will get credit for doing it.  There will also be a literacy paper or two and a math.  Right now it will be all one level.  Eventually, homework pages sent home will be more individualized.   The books selected now are some that they have not had the opportunity to read in class so it will not be familiar to them.  What we are working on for most is telling the story through reading the pictures, memorizing text, tracking print (touching each word)

Science/Social Studies

We have been learning about rules and their importance at home, school and in the classroom.  We have begun learning about life cycles and I am sure in the next few weeks they will have some exciting news to share about their observations. 

 

 

 

Workshops

1.     Math- Number writing to 6.  The children learned number writing poems and practiced writing numbers on dry erase boards and in number poem books. 

2.    Literacy- Beginning sounds.  They matched animal pictures to their names based on the beginning sound they heard and then recorded the words.   

3.    Writing Workshop- We read the book.  ”I Am Big” and they wrote about what they did as a baby and what they can do now that they are big.   

4.       Science-The children sorted different kinds of seeds and glued them to paper.  This was to observe seeds and how they were different and to work on those classifying skills.  

5.       Technology/Skill Practice- Ipads and computers-Children work on the computers and ipads to increase basic literacy and math skills. 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!