Today was fire safety day for the kindergarten and first grade students. I put lots of pictures of our day on FLICKR. Be sure to check them out. I'm hoping your children can tell you something they liked and something they learned today from one of the fire safety centers we visited.
Readers' Workshop: This week the children learned that they can read both the pictures and words in books. We used a familiar text and letters that we are familiar with to begin searching for a few words on a page. The children also practiced sounding like a "teacher" when reading non-fiction (learn about the world) books.
Writers' Workshop: Our focus this week was on writers planning out books before beginning to draw/write. They are beginning to go back to past writing pieces and are adding labels. We will be doing a few labeling activities next week to further reinforce this skill.
Math Workshop: We have been busy playing "Top-It" (formerly know as war) with dot cards. I can tell these fish are used to playing dice games. Thank you! They are seeing dot cards and can identify how many dots there are, often without counting. We represented the numbers 0-10 using counters on a number board. As the numbers increased, the children began to notice the pattern of one more counter in each row. Lastly, we spent some time getting to know the circle. The children searched for circle in magazines and made a class circle collage.
Visual Arts: We painted pumpkins & ghosts, drew monsters and began to make our spooky sun catchers to hang in the windows.
Some Books We Read: Alphabet Rescue, Pattern Fish, No Dragons for Tea, Fresh Fall Leaves, The Carrot Seed, Little School of Fish, Stop, Drop and Roll, Fall Mix Up, Go Away Big Green Monster
Apps We Used: Alphabet Monster and Number Monster
Donation Requests: Rice for our texture table and Dixie cups(small bathroom size)
Up-Coming Events:
- Word of the Week- at
- Handwriting- N & M
- Lively Letters-qu
- No School Monday, 10/10
- Halloween Celebration-10/28 *more info to follow
- Early Release Days- 10/26 & 11/2 *Parent/Teacher Conference Days
- No School (Teacher In-Service Day)-11/8
- No School-11/11
Wishing you a fabulous 3 day weekend!
Kristen
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