Review for the Weeks of October 27th and November 5th

We had a wonderful Halloween celebration last Friday. Last week a post did not go out about our week so this post includes this week and last week. Thank you again to all of the parents for their support during the Halloween party and parade. The party would not happen without your donations, time and effort put into the planning. I know the children had a blast at the party. The energy level was high and I'm sure they were ready to go trick or treating as soon as they got home. Here is our weeks in review

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /b/ /j/ and /ai/

Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, /u/, /l/, /f/, 

Popcorn Words

We learned: did, not, can, is
Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me and am

Handwriting

In handwriting we practiced the capital and lowercase letters Cc and Ee. We are just about ready to start our writing curriculum!

Reading

During our reading time we read the books Stellaluna and The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. Last week with the story Stellaluna we learned many new facts about bats. We mapped this information on a chart called a schema chart. On our chart we added information that we already knew about bats (schema), then at the end of the week we added all of the new information we had learned to the new information section. If we found out that one of our intial background knowledge about bats was not true we moved the sticky note that it was written on to the "misconceptions" column. We also used the information we learned about bats to make another chart. We finished the sentences Bats can, bats have, and bats are to map out this new information.

During our week of Spookley we discussed how we treat friends with respect in kindergarten and at home. In the story Spookley was different then all of the other pumpkins and the round pumpkins made him feel bad about himself. At the end of the story Spookley learns that just because he is different does not mean he is not a valuable pumpkin, he is just unique. Then we had to decide for ourselves what shape pumpkin we would be. We made a movie to explain our choices and to show you our projects. We will share as soon as it is ready.

Our poem this week was called The Scarecrow.

Our Weekly Reader was all about a Veterans and why we celebrate them on November 11th.

Math

These two weeks in math have been focused on ordering and comparing numbers 1-10. We compared had to find the number on a number line that was 1 more, 1 fewer, 2 more, and 2 fewer. We also used number lines to find the missing numbers when ordering numbers 0-10 In our math centers we practiced these skills with our games, puzzles and stamps.

Important Reminders
November 10th Picture retakes (remember to return unwanted pictures)

Scholastic book orders are due November 14th
No school November 26th, 27th, and 28th

Email me with any questions!

Pumpkins and Spiders

Here is a week in review.

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /l/ and /f/

Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, and /u/

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: me and am
Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on and we

Handwriting

In handwriting this week we practiced the capital and lowercase letter Dd.

Reading

During our reading time we read the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin. This story introduced us to the life cycle of a pumpkin. The boy in the story Jamie watches a pumpkin seed turn into a giant pumpkin. We learned the vocabulary words observe, patient, scoop and enormous.

Our poem this week was called The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

The itsy bitsy spidercrept up on ____'s headHe wiggled all aroundthen used it for a bed.He scampered down (his/her) backand hopped down to the floor.Then that itsy bitsy spidersqueezed underneath the door.

Our Weekly Reader was all about Pumpkins.

Math

This week our focus in math was comparing numbers 0-10. We are using words like greater than or less than. This will help us order numbers as well as quantity discrimination (deciding which number is worth more or less). We did story problems such as Mom gave us a choice of two cookies or four cookies. Which group of cookies is more or greater? In math we also made spiders. We had to count 8 legs and write numbers 1-8 on them.

Important Reminders
Family Halloween Party tonight October 24th 6:30-8:00
Parent Teacher Conferences October 27th and 29th
Halloween party during school October 31st
No School November 3rd & 4th

Scholastic book orders are due November 14th

Email me with any questions!