All About Spiders!

Another short but busy week in KD! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included reading and writing CVC words, sequencing and reading The Itsy Bitsy Spider, playing CVC games, and writing the power words "I see". 

During Phonics, we worked on our last few letters/sounds that we haven't learned yet: Qq and Uu.  We learned two new power words: you and of.  We continued stretching out sounds and segmenting words, isolating beginning and ending sounds, and reading and writing power words.  You can find the words we are working on on the tab above! 

 In Reading, we read the story Whistle for Willie by Exra Jack Keats and worked on retelling to deepen our understanding, making text-to-self connections, talked about patterns in rhyming stories and practiced rhyming words, and looked at illustrations and talked about their importance. We also learned new vocabulary words: proud, determined, whirl, and scramble.

During Writing, we practiced hearing and discussing a story. We practiced stretching out words and writing each sound that we hear.  We added a few more words to our word/sound wall. You can find the power words that we are learning by clicking on the tab above. 

We wrapped up working on comparing numbers to 10 in Math using the vocabulary more than, less than, fewer than, and equal to.  We started our new pilot program and began to talk about teen numbers. More to come! 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned two ways to help ourselves feel calm when we encounter strong feelings: asking for help and slow breathing. Ask your child to tell you some ways they’ve learned to feel calm when they get upset. Have them teach you how to use slow breathing to feel calm.

Our Social Studies lesson this week focused on oceans, countries, borders, and looking at the globe to find where we live in the United States. We will continue to learn about other countries in the coming weeks as well how families live around the world. 

Looking ahead...

Veteran's Day Assembly 11/11 WEAR RED WHITE AND BLUE

Thanksgiving Break 11/26-11/28

Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/12

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun and spooky week! Here are some of the important things we learned...

We explored Halloween themed centers this week! We found halloween pictures and wrote the words, practicing stretching out the sounds we here.  We read and sorted Halloween power words and played CVC games. 

We learned the letters and sounds for Zz, Xx, and Yy. We practiced two new power words: or and for. We worked on blending and segmenting sounds and isolating ending sounds. 

In Writing, we wrote stories with the power word "see".  We practiced writing from left to write with spaces between each word. We used our word wall to write more words in our stories.

During Reading, we read the story Gossie and made text to self connections.  We worked on retelling to build comprehension and understanding.  We practiced echo reading to build concepts of print and oral fluency. Our vocabulary words were search, heartbroken, energetic, and enjoy.

Our Math lessons this week focused on comparing numbers using "more than" and "fewer than". 

We started learning about continents and oceans in Social Studies. Ask your child to tell you what the names of them are and if they can find any of them on a world map.  We will be shifting over to Science next week and will be revisiting our Social Studies unit in a few weeks. 

We watch our first play titled Carmella Full of Wishes. We also had our first Reed School Family Time. Ask your child to tell you all about these fun activities! 

 

We wrapped up our bullying unit in Second Steps by talking about bystander power.  

Halloween Party pictures coming soon! 

Looking ahead...

Scholastic Book Orders due 11/4

Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/12

Have a great weekend! Happy Halloween!

Jena