Wolves

Our Marvelous Me this week: Levi!!!!

Upcoming events: 

Monday 9/18 CSD support cards due back

Thursday 9/21 & Friday 9/22: No School

Dear Parents, 

We have spent the week studying wolves and comparing  a real wolf to our fairy tale wolf in the story of The Three Little Pigs. The children are quite fascinated with them and were surprised to learn that dogs are descendants from wolves. We are starting to learn our songs for our fairy tale skit and we will begin to practice our lines next week. September is flying by and we are really settling into classroom routine. 

Marvelous Me:

This week, we focused on Levi's name. The children used many hands on experiences to write Levi's name. We used Wikki sticks, Q-tip painting, stamping, rubber bands, stickers, white boards and a pencil to learn the letters. We focused on the sounds and I introduced vowels and why they are special.  This afternoon, we will celebrate Levi by listening to him talk about all the exciting things he brought in to share. 

Readers Workshop:

This week, we focused on a book called The Colors of Us. This book follows a little girl around her neighborhood as she encounters people of different color. She describes them in terms of cinnamon, sugar, coco, etc...The children made their own self portraits and mixed their own special skin color.
We reviewed the"ig" family from last week and wrote the word family. The children created a wolf fact book and either wrote themselves or we wrote facts for them. They made finger puppets to retell the The Little Pigs story. They also created a book for Levi where we also focused on correct letter formation of his name.

Math Centers:

                 

We continued to work on writing numbers 1-5 this week. While working on Marvelous Me projects we counted sticker and paint dots that made up each letter of Levi's name. This will be a frequent Marvelous Me activity. Two new math games were introduced. One is build a city where each partner takes turn rolling a die and then they "build" a tower for the city. Then a coin is flipped that has more or less written on it where they compare the buildings. 

Science:
This week, science was incorporated into our books. We discussed habitat, herbivore vs carnivore, predator vs. prey and mammals.

We have a few classroom wish items:

• Small sticker books for fine motor activities
• oil pastels
• an electric pencil sharpener
• fine tip markers
• air pump for balls

Many thanks,

Mrs. Hazlett