Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Picture Retake

Picture retakes are scheduled for November 5th.

F.Y.I. We read a National Geographic book on Halloween today and learned that most parents say they eat candy from their kids' Halloween bags. (So, be careful.  They are onto us!)

Enjoy your trick-or-treating tonight!

Kristen

Friday, October 25, 2013

October 25th

I added some new pictures to Flickr. Be sure to check them out!

Here is a glimpse of our week in the fish classroom:

Language Arts: The children have been busy learning about the 'superstar' letters a & o. We also worked on the writing C,O, and Q in shaving cream and in our journals. Our shared reading book, Huggles Can Juggle featured our word of the week, an. We blended some sounds together to read C,V,C words.

Math: We have been working on counting and matching sets of objects to 10 and the children continue to play dice games. We are working on subitizing, immediately knowing how many items are displayed in a set of objects.

Visual Arts:  Our hall is looking spooky! The children made witches using basic shapes and jack-o-lanterns this week. We also drew and labelled BIG, SCARY, GREEN MONSTERS.

Book of the Week: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley
Poem of the Week:  "5 Little Pumpkin"
Apps We Are Using: Counting Beads, Letterschool, G's Kitchen

Upcoming Events:

  • Handwriting- S,A & I
  • Sight Word- I
  • Phonics- m & n
  • Costume Parade-Wednesday, 10/30 at 9:00
  • Book orders due online-10/31
  • Early Release for Conferences- 11/7 & 11/13 
  • No School- 11/8 & 11/11
  • Family Breakfast- 11/26 8-8:30 *More info to follow

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Classroom Behavior Incentive

Hi Fish Families!
I just wanted to let you know that I started a classroom reward system today. If a teacher catches a student doing something "good" we will tell them to put a fish in the jar. When the jar is full, the children will vote on a class celebration. I will let you know when this happens. We are looking forward to celebrating all the wonderful things we are seeing with these "fish"!
Kristen

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Welcome!

Welcome to our classroom blog! I am excited for you to check it out. This site will be used to share news from the fish classroom. Please subscribe by email as soon as possible. This will be our main communication tool.

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1. Enter your desired email address in the subscription box located in the top right hand corner.
2. You will be given a code that you will have to enter to make sure you are not a robot. :-)
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Thank you,
Kristen