Fire Safety Week

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics- We continued Jolly Phonics by learning the sounds for d & g. We sang our Jolly songs and jingles with all the letters we have learned so far!


 Our popcorn word this week was big. We kept our book "Big" at school in our bags to continue reading during Daily 5- Read to Self.

Handwriting- This week in handwriting we learned a new song about letters that have a middle like A, H, and G. In our books we practiced letters H and L.

Reading: We read a story called Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats. Our vocabulary words this week were whirl, proud, scramble, and determined. The word whirl made a connection with our Jolly Phonics /g/ jingle (gurgle, gurgle, gurgle as the water went down the drain) In the story  Whistle for Willie, Peter, the main character, is determined to learn how to whistle so he can call his dog, Willie. The students were eager to share moments in their life when they were determined to learn something new as well as a time they were proud of something. Many of them said they were proud of their parents because they work to make money, make them dinner, play with them, and they know how to read stories to them.

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem I am a Fireman.  

I Am A Fireman 
[tune: I'm A Little Teapot] 
I am a fireman, dressed in red; 
with my fire hat on my head. 
I can drive the fire truck; fight fire too, 
And help to make things safe for you.

 We got a few new books for our Read to Self reading bags. In our bags we place all of the books we have read and made as a class to be read again and again. The books often contain repetitive text as well as our popcorn words. This week we got the book Fire Truck as well as the book I see a Firefighter.

Math- We continued practicing our counting. We worked on counting objects up to 10 in fire safety themed centers.  Next week we will begin our new math unit on numbers. We will focus more on writing and recognizing the written numbers. We also made number books in our math station that you might have seen. We practiced counting from 1-10 in the book How Much Fire Gear?

Progress reports went home today. Please look over them, sign and return them. Included with the progress reports is a list of the items your child is expected to master in the first trimester. The first trimester is over November 22nd.

Please take a moment to sign up for a conference on November 4th or 5th. Each conference time slot is 15 minutes long. (Click on the word conference to be taken to the website) You will need to sign up for an account with an email however the information is only used to send you a reminder of your conference.


Important Reminders:
No School on October 14th.
Scholastic book orders are due October 30th. If I get any orders by the 18th I will send an order in early for the Halloween books! I know I have a few on my list!

Any questions?? Email me!

Have a wonderful weekend!