Friday, October 31

Friday, October 31

Character Education: Mrs. Weninger and Officer Fox will be talking to the children about trick-or-treating safely.
Writer's Workshop: Boo! Drawing ghosts to go along with this word is fun too!


Library Day
Math: Position Words Pumpkin Book & Fill-a-Pumpkin Dice Roll

Academic Halloween Party Activities
~Halloween Phonics Bingo
~~Draw-a-Rhyme: Spooky Monster
~Push Pin Pumpkins
~Decorate a Pumpkin Shape
~Feed the Pumpkin (Tennis Balls with a slit for a mouth.)
 
**The children will assist in making the FRANKENSTEIN pudding snack (See Picture above) and hear spooky stories.


~Have a fun and safe night of trick-or-treating!
~No school on Monday, November 3...Teacher Workshop.
~Keep having your child practice their sight words! If you need a list, let me know what number to send home with your child.

Thursday, October 30

Thursday, October 30

Letter Focus: Qq
Sight Word Focus: or

 Handwriting: Letter Q
 Writer's Workshop: What can we write about? At this early stage of writing, many children struggle with changing topics (only writing about their dog, family, etc.) Modeling ideas and placing them on a big chart paper triggers bigger ideas. At this point, when a topic is chosen, your child draws a picture and receives support to write the sounds they hear to make the words about their picture.

Phonological Awareness: Identify Rhyming Words
Using the song This Old Man, the kids will identify the the rhyme that goes with each number. Do this at home but leave out the underlined rhyme so your child says it.
This old man, he played one;
He played knick-knack on my
thumb.
With a knick-knack paddy-whack,
give the dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.
two/shoe
three/knee
four/door
five/hive
six/sticks
seven/heaven
eight/gate
nine/spine
ten/again
Language Arts: Reading The Three Little Pigs with expression and fluency.

Math: Mrs. Haglin, our school's Technology Integration Specialist, is introducing the kids to Splash Math on the Ipad today.
**It's Day 40 at school! Zero the Hero is here!
Computer class today.
DAILY 5: Guided Reading Groups will begin next week. If your child is reading about 15 sight words, they are ready to start 'real' books. 

SMART Room

~If you are able PLEASE come see what's inside the big semi in our parking lot (The Science Express) anywhere from 3-5:30 tonight!
~Send your child's costume with them to be put on at 1:00 tomorrow.

Wednesday, October 29

Wednesday, October 29

Letter Study: Qq
Sight Word Focus: or
 Phonological Awareness: Performing Steps in Sequence
EX: Crawl to the table, stand up, and hop on one foot.
Language Arts: Using the big book, "The Three Little Pigs", the kids are working on: 
Retelling story events. 
Identifying and voting on favorite characters. 
Reflecting on analyzing characters. 
Building oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion.
  Writer's Workshop: In their journal, the children are drawing a picture of their pet (If they don't have a pet, write what they wish they had.) and label.
DAILY 5: Three of the 5 components are in full swing...Word Work, Work on Writing, Read to Self.

Math: Decomposing the Number 7 & Writing #7

SMART Room:

~Farmer Brown came to read Click, Clack, Boo!

~We enjoyed celebrating Logan's birthday yesterday...

Tuesday, October 28

Tuesday, October 28

Happy Birthday Logan!

Letter Focus: Pp
Popcorn Word: he
 Handwriting: Letter P
 Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Words into Syllables
A child will pantomime an action (skiing, climbing, nodding, etc.) and the rest of the children will clap the syllables to that word.
Language Arts: Again, using the story "The Three Little Pigs", the kids will work on retelling the story events, visualizing and analyzing the characters during the reading. 
 Writer's Workshop: What will you be for Halloween? S-t-r-e-t-c-h out the sounds like Stretchy the Snake!

SMART Room: I love watching the kids learn while moving!
DAILY 5: As I mentioned yesterday, we started building stamina for Word Work. The children were successful at 8 minutes of uninterrupted work!
Math: Decomposing (taking apart) the # 7 in a variety of ways and drawing those varieties.
A storybook reader is scheduled for 10:10 to read Click, Clack, Boo!
 PhyEd Today

 
~Will all of you check to see if a library book called Fancy Nancy Hair Dos & Don'ts accidentally came home with your child? Thank you!
 ~The kids sure learned a lot on the Science Express! They were able to separate mud and water using a Vortex machine. You can see it for yourself anytime Thursday evening from 3-5:30.

~A glimpse of our visit with future dental hygentists...