We hope you all enjoyed the Labor Day weekend! I enjoyed catching up on some much needed sleep and spending time with my family. It was nice to get back in the groove though this week, with a shorter 4 day week.
In math this week, we worked on our new unit, Developing a Sense of Quantities to 10. We are working hard to learn our routine for our math stations. We have a math journal station, an independent practice station and we will be adding a math technology station this upcoming week. We will eventually add a game/hands-on activity station and a guided math station with the teacher. We are continuing to look at numbers in a variety of different ways.
In language arts, we continued our word study by looking at our names and playing "name bingo". The students had a lot of fun with this game since it used everyone's name in our class.
We read the poem, Colors, and focused on the sight word, "a." We wrote the word "a" several times and looked for rhyming words in our poem. We read the book That is NOT a Good Idea, by Mo Willems, and worked on making predictions. The students learned that a prediction is a guess based on the title, pictures and words in a text. It is okay if we make a prediction that is wrong. We also make predictions before and during reading the book Suddenly!, by Colin McNaughton. We also worked on retelling a story after reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The students have colored pictures of the characters in the book and will use the pictures to retell the story to a partner next week. We will work on identifying the main event in a story, also. In writing, we focused on figuring out if words we want to add to our stories are short or long (will it have many letters in the word or only a few?) and then we discussed how to "talk like a turtle" and say the words slowly. As we slowly say words we listen for the sounds we hear and write them down. We got our writing folders this week and worked on slowly saying words and writing the sounds we heard.
We continued work in our handwriting book and worked on the forming the letters N, M and H. In social studies, we focused on authority figures that help us in our school. We read about a librarian, principal and a teacher. We will hear about a custodian and a school nurse next week. We will also begin to learn about people in our community that help us.
In science, we began our unit, Properties of Objects. We learned about our five senses and how they help to keep us aware. We noticed the properties of popcorn with our senses, as we popped some in an air popper and ate some. We noticed that the popcorn was white, soft, bumpy, salty and smelled yummy! We read the book Seven Blind Mice and it showed us how some blind mice used their other senses to figure out what an object was by exploring its properties. We will play a game with some buttons next week and describe the properties of the buttons. We will make a chart of all of the different properties we might be able to use to describe a variety of objects.
Reminders
Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below.
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Sept. 11 Kindergarten Open House, 6:00-6:30 p.m.
Sept. 11 PTA General Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 14 Kona Ice, after school
Sept. 19 Bush's Chicken Spirit Night, 4-7 p.m.
Sept. 20 Picture Day
Sept. 20 Coffee Chat for parents, Library, 7:45-8:15 a.m.
Sept. 25 Family PE/Wellness Night, 6-7 p.m.
Sept. 14 Kona Ice, after school
Sept. 19 Bush's Chicken Spirit Night, 4-7 p.m.
Sept. 20 Picture Day
Sept. 20 Coffee Chat for parents, Library, 7:45-8:15 a.m.
Sept. 25 Family PE/Wellness Night, 6-7 p.m.
Superstars & Birthdays:
Morris Superstar:
Jackson!
Morris September Birthdays:
Mozelle-9/14
Ethan-9/26
Ethan-9/26
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