Tuesday, October 7

Tuesday, October 7

The kids will be making themselves into life-size                   firefighters...pictures to come. The kids will learn more about 9-1-1 and how it's ONLY used in an emergency.
Letter Focus: Kk
Sight/Popcorn Word: to
 Handwriting: Letter K
 Name Focus: Dan
 Phonological Awareness: More Work with Segmenting the First Sound in a Wordp-p-ickle, b-all
Language Arts: Using the Reader's Theater script, With My Family, the kids will echo-read to build fluency and build comprehension through retelling of the story.
A storybook reader is scheduled for 1:00 to read Amelia Bedelia First Apple Pie.
DAILY 5: We continue to work on building our stamina in 'Read to Self'. We are nearing 4 minutes of uninterrupted reading.

Math: 2D Shapes: Attributes of a Triangle

SMART Room: The Green Blob with Eyeballs (The kids use tweezers to pull the eyes out of the playdough and transfer to a film canister. They are LOVING this station!)
PhyEd Day
From Mr. Ronnenberg's Blog:
Fall is upon us!!

Both the calendar and the weather are telling us its finally fall...  Just as a reminder please bring warm clothes because we do intend to go outside for P.E whenever possible.  Also remember it is nice to have a spare pair of socks, just in case they get wet outside.
Primary P.E (K-3rd grade)
Throwing and catching have taken up much of our time over the last week as we continue to develop hand-eye coordination.  Some groups have been using bean bags while others have used soft dodgeballs and even footballs.
Stay active:)

 
~The book order is due tomorrow.
 ~Tomorrow is our walking field trip to the fire station. Please make sure your child has shoes appropriate for walking.

 
Come to the Book Fair:
The Book Fair offers specially-priced books and educational products, including popular series, award-winning titles, new releases, adult bestsellers, and other great reads from more than 100 publishers. Book Fair customers may help the school, building classroom libraries by purchasing books through the Classroom Wish List program for teachers.
Days & Hours for the Book Fair are:
Wednesday, Oct. 8: 12:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 9: 9:15 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 10: 9:15 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 13: 9:15 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 14: 9:15 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 15: 8:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

SCIENCE EXPRESS COMING TO MLE
The Science Express is a 53-foot long laboratory on wheels, including meeting space and fully integrated audio/visual system and it will be visiting at MLE from October 27-October 30. Students will participate in classes during the 4-day stay and parents will be invited to come one of the evenings to check it out! Watch for more information coming home soon.

Monday, October 6

Monday, October 6                
*FIRE SAFETY WEEK*
The kids will learn about 'Stop, Drop, & Roll' today.

Letter Study: Kk
Popcorn Word: to

 Name Focus: Aiden

 Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting the First Sound in a Word
d-esk, m-an
Language Arts: Concept Web-Families
We will build a family word web today as well as introduce a Reader's Theater script: With My Family
 DAILY 5:

Math: 2D Shapes and Their Attributes: Curves/No Curves & Writing #'s 2, 3, 4, 5

SMART Room:

Carrying a bucket full of sand while on the Balance Beam-hop back on the numbered pumpkins on the floor and do it all over again!

Music Day
 The kids had fun painting their pumpkins with Q-Tips on Friday!

 
~The book order is due Wednesday.

Friday, October 3

                     Friday, October 3
Name Focus: Olivia

Letter Focus: Letter Review (I, J)

Sight Words: and, on

Character Education: Mrs. Weninger will be with us from 8:25-8:45.
She is helping the students learn about 'The Zones of Regulation' which are indicators that tell about how we feel and can regulate ourselves so we can be ready to learn at school. The zones are green, yellow, blue, and red. You can learn more about these zones by clicking below:
www.zonesofregulation.com
Math: 2-D Shape Hunt-Describe Their Characteristics

Smart Room: Squishing small pieces of paper to fill in a pumpkin shape.
Library Day
PhyEd Day
The following is posted on Mr. Ronnenberg's blog:
"In P.E we have begun our soccer unit.  Unfortunately, the weather has not cooperated very well and we have been inside part time.  Passing/kicking, dribbling, goaltending, and teamwork are currently being discussed in most classes with our youngest groups focusing first on the gross motor movement of kicking.  We are looking forward to getting outside for the remainder of our soccer unit and the start of our physical fitness testing.  Have a great week and feel free to be in touch!"
 Project: The kids are painting a pumpkin with Q-Tips today.

~If you haven't done so, please fill out your conference sheet about what you would like to talk about.
~The book order is due Wednesday, October 8.

~Bundle up and snuggle in this weekend...brr!

Thursday, October 2

Thursday, October 2

Letter Focus: Jj
Sight Word Focus: on

Name Focus: Zoey
Computer Class Today
 Handwriting: Letter J

SMART Room
 Music Day

Phonological Awareness: Rhyme Recognition

Language Arts: The children continue to work on recognizing the main idea of a passage and identifying the details that support the main idea.
Math: Listen & Count/Writing Numbers 1-5
This is like Bingo where I will say a number and the kids look on their paper to see if a box of pictures matches that number and then color it.

The children are working on building stamina to sustain independence in "Reading to Self". They made it for 2 minutes again yesterday!

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