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We read books by one of our favorite authors, Kevin Henkes! Some of the books we read include Chrysanthemum, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, Sheila Rae the Brave, Wemberly Worried, Chester’s Way, Julius the Baby of the World and many more! We completed many follow up activities at centers such as answering text to self and text to text connections, talking about our favorite main character, and recalling details from our favorite stories.
Our centers and reading tasks this week included LOTS of fun activities with tricky skills! We read in the independent reading area, played beginning sound games and roll a sight word, and explored Starfall. ABCs on the iPad. We wrote a response to Wemberly Worried and made text to self connections with Chrysanthemum. We found various words at our "Write the Room" center and recorded what words we read.
In Writing, we read written words in our environment (environmental print). We generated ideas about places we like to go and wrote about them. We practiced telling our idea orally to our partners and then recorded the sounds that we heard in each word. Please continue to work with your child on stretching out words and hearing each sound (we practice this by pretending that we are blowing a bubble and we stretch it out).
During Phonics, we worked on letter "g" and revisited our vowels "a", "i", "o", and "u". We talked about compound words and practiced breaking them apart. We looked at sentences and practiced pointing to words while we read, looked at spaces, and punctuation.
Our Reading lessons this week taught us the high frequency words "are" and "we". We practiced writing, spelling, and reading them. "Are" is a very tricky sight word that has two heart parts. Ask your child to tell you what that means! We created poem books this week and added some of the songs and poems that we have been learning. We continued to work on reading independently from our book boxes.
We wrapped up our unit on numbers to 10 in Math. Next week, we will start our next unit on measurement. Please continue writing numbers at home with your child.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we discussed what we've learned about the importance of paying attention, practicing, and continuing to try after making mistakes. We put these skills to use while learning a rhyme with accompanying movements. Ask your child to show and teach you the rhyme they learned, along with the movements, so you can do it together.
Looking ahead...
-Panther Day 10/6
-Parent Teacher Conferences (sign ups coming soon) 10/17 and 10/19
-No School 10/20
-Field Trip to Eckert's 10/27. Please return your child's permission slip!
(DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR VOLUNTEER INFORMATION COMPLETED ASAP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND)
-Please send in a framed picture of your family.
-Don't forget to empty your child's folder each evening and to send a snack everyday.
Have a great weekend!
Jena
