Thursday, October 30, 2025

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

Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin


 

We have had a fast but busy week learning about pumpkins! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our literacy centers included playing CVC games,  reading books assigned to us on RAZKids. sequencing the life cycle of a pumpkin, finding and writing CVC words and power words, and much more!

In Phonics this week, we worked on the letters and sounds for Ww, Jj, and Ee.  We learned two new power words: to and do. We continued blending and segmenting and isolating beginning and ending sounds. 

During Reading, we listened to and discussed the story Josie's Lost Tooth.  We continued to make text-to-self connections to relate the story to our own lives.  We revisited songs and poems that we have learned and found power words in the poems in our poem book. We learned new vocabulary words: sneak, persistent, imitate, and champion

We continued to learn about comparing lengths, heights, and weights during Math. We will wrap up this unit soon and will start our next unit on comparing numbers in the coming days.  

We had fun at our Fire Prevention Day activities! Ask your child to tell you what they learned. 

We practiced writing "I like" sentences during Writing. We worked on writing left to right, leaving spaces between words, and capitalizing the first word in our sentence.  We are focusing on tapping out sounds we hear in words and recording each sound on paper. 

We learned how to refuse bullying during our Second Steps lesson.


Looking ahead...

Pajama Day 10/27
Jersey Day 10/28
Western Day 10/29
Twin Day 10/30
Picture Retake Day 10/30

More Pumpkin Patch pics coming next week! 
Parent Volunteers: Please don't forget to send me your pictures! 



















































































































































































Have a great weekend!
Jena