Creepy Crawly Spiders!

Here is a review of our week: 

Phonics

 We continued Jolly Phonics by learning the sounds for o & u. We sang our Jolly songs and jingles with all the letters we have learned so far! We also practiced in our books writing letters o & u, as well as, finding words with those sounds in them.

Popcorn Words
 Our popcorn words this week were my and like.

Handwriting

In handwriting this week we practiced letters V and W.

Reading

We read a story called When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry... by Molly Bang. Our vocabulary words this week were furious, snatch, comfort, and welcome.  In the story When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry... we learned about a little girls emotions and how she deals with them. We discussed with each other times when we were furious, or really angry, and what kind of things make us feel that way. Then we discussed people who help comfort us and how we can comfort our friends in class. 

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem The Itsy Bitsy Spider.  

The Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Itsy Bitsy Spider

crept up on _______'s head.

He wiggled all around

then used it for a bed.

He scampered down his/her back

and hopped down to the floor.

Then the itsy bitsy spider

squeezed underneath the door.

Math

We started our new numbers unit this week. We focused on writing numbers 1 and 2 while continuing to practice counting to these numbers (since this was very easy to count we typically continued counting to at least 10. We worked in spider and bat themed centers.  

We learned some interesting facts about spiders this week. We also made a few spider graphs answering yes or no questions. Our first question was Are spiders scary? Most of the class voted no, but we had 4 who said yes. Our second question was Do spiders make good pets? Most of the class again voted no however we had a few students who would love a spider pet :)

In writing we used our results from our pets graph to write one reason why a spider would be a good or bad pet. Take a look below:

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Important Reminders
Half day on October 24th.
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Have a wonderful weekend!