Week of October 31, 2016

During our literacy block we are reading stories and talking about characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  In our guided reading groups we are working at looking at the beginning sound and pictures to help us read unknown words.

We are continuing to work on writing a good sentence beginning with an upper case letter and ending with a punctuation mark.

In math we are meeting with students and asking them to identify numbers, count, write numbers, identify shapes, compare numbers etc.

We continue to work on fall projects and we will be spending time learning about the first Thanksgiving and what Thanksgiving means to us today.

Our letters/words of the week are:  "i", "j" "in" "on".

REMINDERS
The Story Book Character parade will be at 2:00.

Please remember to sign and return homework packets by Friday.  Homework is important to reinforce what we are working on in the classroom and to teach responsibility.

Below are some pictures of students doing morning work.

Week of October 24, 2016

During our literacy block this week we will continue to talk about characters, setting, beginning, middle and end of a story.  We will continue to think about strategies we can use to figure out words we do not know when we are reading.

We are continuing to work on writing a good sentence - begin with an upper case letter, end with a punctuation mark, spelling sight words correctly, sounding out unknown words.

We continue to work with the letters of the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.  We put sounds together to read words (ex. h o p; sound out each letter then blend to make word).  It is so important that your child knows the letters and letter sounds.  Please keep working with your child so that they know the letters and letter sounds.

In math we are sorting and patterning.  We continue to work with numbers 1-10 and think about how many we have if we add 1 or 2 to a given number.

We will read fall and pumpkin stories this week and work on some special projects.

Our letters and words of the week are:  "t" "i" "we" "go"

REMINDERS
Wednesday, October 26th is an early dismissal day.  Dismissal begins at 1:20PM.

A letter will go home about Halloween on Monday, October 31st.  Children may  not wear their costume to school.  It should be in a bag with their name on it.  We will help children get into their costumes and to take them off before dismissal.  Everyone is invited to the Storybook Characters parade which takes place at 2:00PM on Monday, October 31st.

Our star student this week is:   Alicia

Our trip to the Stamford Museum and Nature Center was fun.  We went to the barn first and we each got an apple to put in the hopper.  We were able to spin the wheel to mash the apple and eventually see the juice of the apple drip out.  We got to taste some apple cider.  We walked through the farm to see the animals and we had some time for the playground.

Week of October 24, 2016

During our literacy block this week we will continue to talk about characters, setting, beginning, middle and end of a story.  We will continue to think about strategies we can use to figure out words we do not know when we are reading.

We are continuing to work on writing a good sentence - begin with an upper case letter, end with a punctuation mark, spelling sight words correctly, sounding out unknown words.

We continue to work with the letters of the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.  We put sounds together to read words (ex. h o p; sound out each letter then blend to make word).  It is so important that your child knows the letters and letter sounds.  Please keep working with your child so that they know the letters and letter sounds.

In math we are sorting and patterning.  We continue to work with numbers 1-10 and think about how many we have if we add 1 or 2 to a given number.

We will read fall and pumpkin stories this week and work on some special projects.

Our letters and words of the week are:  "t" "i" "we" "go"

REMINDERS
Wednesday, October 26th is an early dismissal day.  Dismissal begins at 1:20PM.

A letter will go home about Halloween on Monday, October 31st.  Children may  not wear their costume to school.  It should be in a bag with their name on it.  We will help children get into their costumes and to take them off before dismissal.  Everyone is invited to the Storybook Characters parade which takes place at 2:00PM on Monday, October 31st.

Our star student this week is:   Alicia

Our trip to the Stamford Museum and Nature Center was fun.  We went to the barn first and we each got an apple to put in the hopper.  We were able to spin the wheel to mash the apple and eventually see the juice of the apple drip out.  We got to taste some apple cider.  We walked through the farm to see the animals and we had some time for the playground.

Week of October 17th, 2016

During our literacy block this week we will be reading stories and focusing on characters, setting and how to figure out unknown words when we come to them.  We will also be focusing on writing a good sentence - beginning with an upper case letter and ending with a period.

In math we will continue to work with patterns and numbers to 10.  We will continue to work with shapes.

We will continue talking about fall.  We will do apple tasting and graph our favorite apple.  We will talk about pumpkins and sequence pictures that start with the seed and end with the pumpkin.

Our letter/words of the week:  "h" "t" "today".

This week we will begin homework and a packet will go home Monday and should be returned by Friday.

We also will begin circulating the star student bag.  Each child will take the bag home for a week - read a book and write about something they like to do with their family in the journal that is provided.

Picture day is Tuesday and our time for pictures is first thing - 9:10AM.

We also have our trip to the Stamford Museum and Nature Center on Thursday.  Please remember to dress your child for the weather.

Below are some pictures of us working on our fall tree project.

Week of October 11, 2016

*During our literacy block this week we will read stories and talk about characters and setting of a story.  We will illustrate and write about our favorite farm animal putting the animal in the proper setting.

 We will also be talking and writing about the emotion of anger.

*During math we will be counting and working with numbers to 10.  We will continue to work with shapes and patterning.

*Our letters/words of the week are:  "l", "h", "and", "is".

*We will continue to work  on some special projects for fall.

Thank you to all the parents who came out for open house.

This week Wednesday, October 12th is a holiday.

We will begin homework next week.

Below are some pictures of recess and students working on fall pictures.

Week of October 5, 2016

*  During our literacy block this week we will continue to read alphabet books and talk about the letters of the alphabet and letter sounds.  We will predict what we think the story will be about by looking at the cover.  We will draw and label pictures of our family.

*  In math we will work with shapes and use words to describe shapes - angle, point, curved etc.

*  We will continue to talk about fall - apples, pumpkins and work on some special projects.

*  Our letter and words of the week are "m", it, see.

REMINDERS
The Springdale Sprint will be on Wednesday, October 5th.  We will be outside from 2:30 until 3:00.

We will go to the book fair on Wednesday, October 5th at 10:40AM.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at Open House on Thursday, October 6th.

Have a great week.

Here are some pictures of us getting ready to work on drawing and labeling pictures that go with our favorite letter of the alphabet.