Busy Days

You have to have energy to work in Room 115.  Our days are filled with movement, discussions, listening, investigating, creating, friendship, laughter and encouragement.  Room 115 is a very special place to work!  Thank you for supporting our classroom.

We are getting so good at learning the letters of the alphabet.  We love to sing the song "Letter Pop" and hold up the appropriate letter.  A way to help us learn our letters is to find words in a book, on a billboard or in a menu and ask us to spell it for you.   Or tell us to find a certain letter and see how long it takes us to find it.

This is a short week but full of lots of learning.  In reading we will be studying the letter "Dd as in dog on a doghouse."  The word wall words are The/the, as.  Next week will be a review week.

Our poem this week only has two words for us to learn how to read.  It is a great poem to read with a variety of voices.  I'm sure your child will be excited to share it with you.  Look for the poetry journal in Wednesday's back pack.  We enjoyed acting out the poem from last week.  We quickly became experts on the multiple meanings of gobble.  We know how to gobble as a plump and proud turkey and then we can quickly turn around and gobble down the turkey.

We are making preparations for Thanksgiving.  Please join us on Wednesday, November 17 or Friday, November 19 as we dress up as Native Americans and pilgrims and eat lunch together.  We are making the costumes at school, so your only responsibility is to enjoy our reenactment of that very important feast!  Our lunch time is 10:50-11:15.

We will be working on our phone numbers in math this week.  Addresses and phone numbers will be assessed on report cards so please help your child learn them.  In math, we will also be working on making sets and understanding the numbers up to 10.

The  Blount yearbook is on sale for $20.  The yearbook will be published in the spring.  


Upcoming dates to remember are:
Monday, November 15:  Spirit night at Mellow Mushroom
Tuesday, November 16:  Dress up as your future career
Tuesday, November 16:  Blount Holiday Market from 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Wednesday, November 17:  Day 1 of dressing up for Thanksgiving at lunch
Thursday, November 18:  Day 2 of dressing up for Thanksgiving at lunch
Friday, November 19:  Spirit night at Baumhower Wings

Don't forget library books are due on Tuesday.  Now that we are getting a sizable collection of word wall words, the students like to get "eye to eye and knee to knee" and practice their reading skills.  It is a very exciting time to watch the students try out their knowledge of letters and words and sentences.  Our classroom is certainly a place where books are valued and cherished.

If you are purchasing snack/juice this week, please send in $1.50 per item because of the short week.  Have a wonderful four day weekend.  Please take time to celebrate the meaning of Veteran's Day!

Please start saving empty toilet tissue rolls.  We need a lot for a very special Christmas secret!

Thank you for sharing your child with me.  I believe that Room 115 is one of the happiest places in the world.  It is all because of the seventeen children who make up Room 115.  Email me with any questions or concerns you may have.