Week of November 27, 2017

This week during literacy we will continue with our Eric Carle unit.  We will talk about characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  We will look for interesting words in the books we read and will notice similarities in Eric Carle's style of writing.

We will write a class story modeled after Eric Carle's style of writing.

We will be working on our math number books and we will be measuring.  We will also be learning about position words this week.

Our letter/sound and words to focus on this week are:

            Pp, Uu
            at, am, for

REMINDERS:
Wednesday, November 29th is an early dismissal day.

Our star student this week is:  Juliana

A special thank you to all the parents who helped put together a fantastic Thanksgiving Feast that we all enjoyed!!

                                         Getting ready for our Thanksgiving Feast.

Week of November 20, 2017

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

We have a short week.  We will continue to read Eric Carle books and talk about characters, setting, problem and solution.  We are also drawing pictures and labeling our pictures.

During math this week we will continue to work with number stories and we will do some graphing.

We continue our Thanksgiving projects.

Our letter/sound of the week is:  Kk
Our sight words this week are:  yes, no

Feathers from our class and Mrs. Healy's class have made our great looking turkey.

Our thankful bulletin board.

We had great fun at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center.

                                              Our star student this week was Jayden.

November 13, 2017

During our literacy block this week we will read Eric Carle books and talk about the characters, setting, problem and solution in the story.  We will read "Do You Want To Be My Friend?" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."  We will talk about characters, setting, problem and solution.

During writing we will design and label our own character and write a sentence to describe our character.

During math we will work with numbers 0-20.  We continue to practice writing our numbers as well as sequencing numbers.  We will work with number stories this week and and will do some graphing. We continue to practice counting to 100.

We will listen to stories about Thanksgiving and do some special projects.

REMINDERS:
Our Field Trip to the Stamford Museum and Nature Center is Friday.

Please remember our Thanksgiving Feast on Wednesday, November 22 and sign up to donate some items we will need if you are able to.

Our letter/sound, words to focus on this week:  Jj and Kk
                                                                            here, of

Jordi, our star student is sharing his journal page with us.

November 6, 2017

This week we will begin our author study and learn about and read books by Eric Carle.  We will begin to notice some of the similarities in Eric Carle books.  We will be drawing pictures and labeling characters from his books as well as talking about the problem and solution in some of the stories we will be reading.

This week I will continue to meet with students to review math concepts we have learned thus far this year.

We will begin to read and talk about the first Thanksgiving and understand the origins of this holiday and to discuss things we are thankful for.  Our emotion word for the month of November is thankful.

REMINDER:
This is a short week - there is no school Tuesday, Election Day or Friday, Veterans Day.

Our letter/sound and sight word for this week are:  "t" "i" and here.

Please practice sight words and letters and sounds with your child.  Have a wonderful week!

Our star students:  Dominic and Jaelyn

Our trip to the Ferguson Library.

We listened to some stories.

Getting ready to work with team members to use materials to construct a fence for five little pumpkins.

We did it!

Halloween Fun!