Sorry for the late update…the weekend got away from me.
This week, we enjoyed and learned about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. They learned to retell, sequence, do beginning, middle, end, and graphing. We also read the Old Lady Who Swallowed some Books and completed an emergent reader that should’ve come home and gone in the star bag. I do hope you’re using the star bags as a good place to keep those books and continue to read them.
We added the letters J and K and the words star, as, and my. Don’t forget to be practice the first quarter sight word lists as well. Sometimes we add new words that go with animated alphabet that aren’t on the list you have. For example: star These will be on our word wall though and they will be expected to spell them correctly if they’re on the wall. They’re encouraged to use the word wall as a resource.
I math, we worked on the numbers 6 and 7, ordering by size, and ordinal numbers. Continue to work on recognizing those numbers out of sequence and work on counting to 20. We learned a new math game, “Where’s the Worm” that was sent home on Friday. I hope you’ll take the time to play these games with your kids when they come home. They’re great practice.
We also learned how to partner read this week and got out the green reading fingers. I showed them how to do it correctly and how NOT to do it. They always get a big kick out of that.
Coming up this week:
Friday: Picture day, Bluejay families activities, and Fall Festival. If you haven’t turned in an item for the Fall Festival, please do so as soon as possible if you are able. Boys are Star Wars items and girls are Barbie items. The Fall Festival is a fun evening for all. I will be here probably at the beginning as my son is going to the 8th grade dance at CT and I’ll have to go and take pictures! Also, I will not be here on Friday. There was lots of confusion last week and the funeral is this Friday.
Ms. Ramirez’s last day will be Wed. Oct. 2nd. We’ll be sad to see her go on to her next school She’s done a great job with our class.
Book orders went home last week. They are due Oct. 6th so if you order Halloween books, then they’ll be back in time to enjoy them.
We have new friends (well, maybe that’s not the right word)…the ants are here! I imagine you’ll hear a lot about our ant farm. They’re really neat to watch and we will be making our own book about ants too!
Have a great week!
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