Hi Room 115 Families!
I hope that you have had a wonderful week! We have been having an amazing week in class! In literacy we finished our Pond Unit! We have created a Pond Resource guide with all of our research. Your student even chose their own pond animal or plant to write about by themselves. You will see that on Seesaw soon! Your students then created a pond painting that represents their pond resource guide. In foundational skills we learned 5 letter sounds. The new art and science of reading shows that when we teach letters we should be discussing them by sounds instead of letter name and we use lowercase letters. Uppercase letters come sooner for students because it is easier to write and recognize. This lesson is important as well because it helps students associate lowercase letters with sounds for reading and helps them begin writing. Some of the other language you may hear about is chaining and taping it out. Chaining is putting letter sounds together to build words. Once we build the word we "tap it out" by using our fingers to "tap out" each sound on the word and blend it together to read it. This is a great tool to use if you are reading with your student at home, or ask your student to teach you how they tap out words. In math we worked on sequencing numbers. Next week we will be looking at adding and doubling. In science, we began our weather journal and looking at the four seasons and how they change. CHANGE IN SCHEDULE: On Monday we will have library instead of on Tuesday. Please make sure you send your student with their library book on Monday so we can check out new books. Spirit Week: Next week will be spirit week. Mrs. Kahn has shared the different dress up days in her Bobcat Bulletin. Here is what the dress up will look like for Kindergarten: - Monday: PJ day - Tuesday: We wear orange - Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday - Thursday: Wild West Day - Friday: Sports day or Braeside Day Please remember that it is okay if your student does not want to dress up! It is just something fun that we will be doing for Braeside spirit! Important Information: 1. Early Release next Friday 2. Send in library books on Monday 3. Spirit week next week!
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Hi Room 115 Families!
I hope that you have been having a good week! Today we celebrated our 30th day of school! I cannot believe how fast school is already going and the amazing growth that I am seeing every day! This week in foundational skills we worked on writing our name with a capital letter and lowercase letters. We also practiced our grip and creating a strong foundation of different lines and loops to help us make lowercase letters. Students are also learning how to tap out the sounds they hear and words and blend them back together. This is a great reading strategy! In literacy, we are continuing to work on our Pond Nature guide. We completed our research on pond animals and are beginning to look at pond plants. Soon your students will also have the ability to choose a pond plant or animal to write and illustrate on their own. In math, we completed our Lego Emmett project. Your students worked hard to find the different combinations of ten. Next week we will work on looking at the sequencing of numbers from 1-20 and looking at teen numbers. In social studies we have continued to look at whole body listening and how to be a problem solver! Classroom Observer Next week we will have a college student from National Louis come to our room and collect observation hours as she begins her journey to become a teacher! She will be observing our class on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons for about a month. I wanted to let you know in advance that we will be having someone join us so it will not be a surprise if you hear about her coming to class. Important Information 1. Monday, October 10th, No School 2. Scholastic Book Orders due Monday! Last chance to put in an order this weekend! Click Here for book catalogue and our class code: As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! |
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