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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.
We officially started literacy centers! The centers themselves will not change each week but the activity at the center will change. The new centers are RAZkids/iPad center, theme center, word work center, sensory bin center, write the room/writing center, and ABC center. We also added Reading group center. The children are learning how to read the work board and find their center in our classroom using the pictures on the work board.
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 beginning sounds at our "Write the Room" center and recorded what sounds we read. At Reading Group, we worked on blending and segmenting words.
In Writing, we listened to and discussed a nonfiction book called City Signs and read written words in our environment (environmental print). We labeled classroom objects and 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 letters and sounds for Bb, Tt, and Ii. We revisited the power words "a" and "the". We also identified words and pictures by their beginning sounds and practiced blending sounds to read words.
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 also learned the poems "1,2,3,4,5" and "The Ants Go Marching".
We continued our unit on numbers to 10 in Math. Next week, we will wrap up and move onto 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.
We had Enrichment with Mrs. Knoot and Family Time with our Reed families! Ask your child to tell you all about their new school family!
We started our Science unit on living and nonliving things. We learned that living things need air, food, and water, and can grow and move. We talked about plants and animals. Your child can tell you all about living things!
Looking ahead...
Parent Teacher Conferences 9/15 and 9/16
Early Release Day 9/17
Fall Break- No School 9/18-9/21
Field Trip to Eckert's 10/10- PLEASE SEND IN YOUR CHILD'S PERMISSION SLIP ASAP
Panther Day 10/25
Fall Festival 10/27
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.
***Please remember to let me know if you are interested in being a classroom volunteer!***
Have a great weekend!
Jena
