Important Dates:
November 21: Thanksgiving Chapel 1pm
November 21: Picture Trading & Thanksgiving Snack
November 22-24: Thanksgiving Break
Picture Trading: In celebration of Thanksgiving we will trade pictures of ourselves with our friends. This lesson will go along with our brief learning about the First Thanksgiving. Please send in wallet size photos or 4×6 size photos of JUST your child. Your child will need to bring in 19 copies. Often Meijer or Snapfish will run a deal with photos costing just a few cents. I am informing you early, with hopes you can find a deal somewhere. 🙂 We will trade photos on November 21st.
Thanksgiving Snack: We will have a feast in our class for our morning snack. Please send in a 20 bites of your child’s favorite food. (example: if your child loves strawberries, please send in 20 strawberries so each child and adult will have one on their plate). We will share of favorite snack and we will eat 20 different bites of food. 🙂
Cooler weather: As you may have noticed, we go outside for recess every day! If the rain isn’t falling, then we are out there. Feel free to have your child wear rainboots if it has been raining and then use gym shoes for indoor shoes. The same for snow, snow boots for outside and gym shoes for inside. Please send along hats and gloves and try to label tags with your child’s name on them. We will try to remind your child to put them on and put them in backpacks when not being used.
Weekly recap:
In Phonics we practiced saying words slowly. This helps us hear the sounds in a word at the beginning, middle and end. We practiced using our alphabet chart to look for the letter for sounds. We kept one chart for our writing folders and sent another home for your child to use their.
Word Wall-we added me and up to our word wall. We will continue to review the words we have already introduced and add more. Here is list of the words we have learned: I, a, the, look, at, me, up, go, see and we.
Poetry-we look for our word wall words in poetry and enjoy illustrating the poems.
Math-We practiced looking for items in groups. This helps us as we count items. Our next Math unit will have us looking for 5 groups as we add.
Writing Workshop-it has been so fun to watch your children grow more confident sketching stories and labeling them! I love listening to them sound out their words.
Handwriting-We practiced writing 6. It is amazing to see the progress once we practice tricky numbers and letters on chalkboards.
Bible: We continue to talk about God’s love for us and how we can share this with others. We forgive, because God forgives us. We try to bring out the best in others, because that is what God wants of us.
Daily 5: we are choosing our options for Daily 5 and using a check list picture chart to make sure that everyone is able to go to all of the centers in one week. This power of choice is amazing. I have been able to work with small groups during Daily 5-which I love. This week we talked about and practiced reading a book and pointing to words with our fingers as we read them. This helps us read the correct word and follow along.