Hello!
We finally had a 'normal' week this week and it was great! Please be sure to send in an extra outfit with your child that is more appropriate for the colder moths. As of right now, we only have extra outfits appropriate for summer. If you can send in an extra pair of pants, socks and a long sleeve shirt by next Friday that would be great. Once we receive your new outfit, we will send back your old outfit.
Literacy:
Last week we took a close look at the beginning sounds of words to help us while we read. This week we looked at endings of words. We discovered there are lots of neat sounds at the ends of words. On Wednesday we had writer's workshop where we focused on the end of our story. We put all of our thought and effort into making sure our story had a solid ending that fit with the beginning and middle. We talked about how endings of stories relate to endings of words.
On Wednesday we got to pull out the overhead projector and study several words and their endings. That was a real hit! There were words written on the overhead projector and some of us got to come up and place a circle around endings of words. Then we got to be detectives and go around the room and look for words to write down. The next day we used a highlighter to highlight the ending.
Another great home activity would be to play the word detective game. Label things in your home
(or place words around the room) and have your child go find them and record them. You can talk about the beginning and ending sounds of each word!
Math:
We started out new unit this week on attributes and patterns! We discovered that sorting items by attributes can also help us in everyday life. When we sort things like our toys and clothes, we learn to stay organized. We learned that attributes is just a fancy word for certain characteristics of things. We got to explore with attribute blocks and the different shapes, sizes, thicknesses and colors those come in. We also played a game called "Guess My Rule" where Mrs. Schultz called children to the front based on a rule in her head. The kids had to guess what the rule was based on similar attributes that all the children up front had. We also used the projector for math where we sorted objects based on certain attributes. We then made patterns after we sorted! Playing with the attribute blocks was really neat.
We finished our spider unit on Tuesday and started diving into learning about bats! We learned that some bats like fruits, some are nocturnal and that they really are not as scary as we might think!
Be sure to remember to send your child in with a coat everyday! A hat and gloves might be a good idea in certain days as well. Morning recess can sometimes be a bit chilly.
We are super excited that we get to go watch our book buddies star in their very own class play on Friday. We hope to take lots of pictures!
**If you can start saving the mini milk cartons for a future class project that would be awesome. We will be making mini gingerbread houses out of these mini milk cartons in December. I heard that McAllisters serves their milk in these small cartons. It's the same milk cartons that you got through the lunch line when you were little!
We will also be starting 'word rings' next week. Each child will get their very own word ring to read through each night and then bring back to school each day. If you could send their words back each day that would be great! Just keep them in the purple communication folder. Each week we will add one or two new words. The words will be high frequency site words that they will come across often in their reading. Have your child read through these words each week to become familiar with them!
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET! We do not have school on Monday!
Have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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