September 20

  Friday, September 20

Letter Study: Review letters/sounds (A, B, C, D)

 Name Focus: Joe

Language Arts: Building Vocabulary Concepts Related to Rules,
 Identify Main Idea & Supporting Details- As a class, we will create a Rules at Home Poster. Watch for an activity to come home with your child that supports this concept to do over the weekend. Please return on Monday.

DAILY 5: If you have any questions at all regarding the DAILY 5 framework, please contact me. I want you to be completely in the know of what your child experiences. 'Read to Self' stamina yesterday was 3 minutes!

Math: Counting Jar: Recording
The children will learn a new step for counting...recording their count. Each child has a journal to record their find.
Their work focuses on:
~Developing strategies for accurately counting and keeping track of quantities up to 10.
~Creating an equivalent set.
~Representing quantities with pictures, numbers, and/or words.
To finish our unit on bus safety, the kids are making a bus with themselves as the drivers!
Library Day!

SMART Room: The kids are getting the routine down!

Letter Study

Our Phonics curriculum takes us through the letters of the alphabet.  It is important for your child to be able to recognize not only each capital and lowercase letter, but also the sound it makes.  (Begin with short vowel sounds, for the vowels, as in "cat", "set", "pig", "dog", and "bug").

Here are some ways we have been practicing our letters so far:

Alphabet chart - every day we say the letter, the sound, and the picture.  If you read alphabet books at home, be sure to include the "sound" in your reading.  (Example: A, /a/-make the short a sound, Apple)

~All children at Maple Lake are in invited to wear the pajamas to school on Monday  to
kick-off Homecoming!