Whew! We certainly became experts on the letter M. Our day of celebrating Mickey and Minnie Mouse was busy with hats, sorting our items and celebrating our favorite team! The following pictures are several ways we sorted our items from home: things you can wear, items for a picnic, things to play with, and books to read.
This week looks to be just as busy. We will be investigating the letter "Rr" as in "rooster on the roof." The word wall words this week are: six, look, they, all. Next week is a review of all the sounds and word wall words introduced. I will be assessing word wall words for report cards on Wednesday, October 6. Make sure your child is able to read the words instantly and accurately upon sight.
For the next three weeks in math, we will be working on number concepts, counting in a sequence from 1-20, counting backwards from 10, recognizing numerals 0-9 and comparing sets up to 10. We will be using the words more than, less than, most and least. Last week we had a special math day using M&M's. We counted, sorted, made patterns and had enough leftover to eat!
Field trip t-shirts will be sent home on Monday. Look for the t-shirt in your child's book bag. This t-shirt is to be worn on ALL field trips. It is a safety measure for me to keep track of the children quickly and easily. Our first field trip is this Thursday to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to see The House at Pooh Corner. The children may wear blue jeans with their field trip shirt. I will send a letter home on Tuesday to the parents that are attending the field trip.
I am going to send home lunch numbers for the children who have been assigned a lunch number. If your child has a lunch number, look for it in the money pouch on Monday. Please help your child learn his/her number even if you don't purchase a lunch. We use the lunch numbers for user names on the computer. Do not be concerned if your child does not have a lunch number. This problem is a system problem and beyond our school's control.
More books continue to be published at the writing center. Everything from take offs of No David! to word books to books about friendship made their appearances last week. Please encourage your child as a writer! We will begin journal writing in October.
Remember to check your child's folder each evening for the reading homework sheets. They do NOT need to be returned. Due to our field trip, there will be NO reading homework on Thursday.
I hope "Lazy Jane" does not live at your house. The children had a fun time with that poem. Please notice on that poem that I used a font that makes a "fancy a." The children need to be able to recognize all the different ways that an "a" can be written. This week's poem has a lot of sight words!
I will be sending home scores from your child's assessment from Stars Early Literacy on Monday. Contact me if you have any questions understanding the report.
Don't forget that every Tuesday is library day!
If you have not done so, please join the PTA. A membership is $10. Our class would like to be recognized as having 100% membership. The PTA does a tremendous job of supporting the classrooms.
We've been patiently waiting and this week we FINALLY get to go to the computer lab. We will be working in the computer lab for the next three weeks!
I will be out of the classroom on Tuesday morning. I will return after lunch. I have an excellent substitute so the children won't even know the difference. Thank you for supporting the learning taking place in our classroom.
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