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10/16/17 and 10/23/17:
Good morning, Parents. Over the next 2 weeks, we will begin very busy units on pumpkins, fall, bats, and spiders! We will learn the life cycle of a pumpkin and make some adorable pumpkin crafts. We will end these themes next week with our field trip to the farm where the students can choose their very own pumpkin to bring home.
In our Daily 5 Centers, the students will read and color a mini-book, focusing on positional words. We will practice segmenting CVC words and matching pictures to word cards, as well as scan QR codes with an iPad to listen to a pumpkin-themed book of their choosing. This QR activity also has the children writing about their favorite part of the story, which is good for comprehension and opinion based writing. Our parent volunteer will be helping the students identify beginning, middle and ending sounds of picture cards. When children identify and manipulate the sounds of words, they become more comfortable with written language and this helps in their literacy development. We also have many partner games available to help review letter sounds. My recent assessments show that many students are knowledgeable in letter identification, but many continue to need practice with letter sounds, especially the short vowel sounds. These activities provide reinforcement of student learning and are enjoyed by the children.
Our Letterland lessons will have us hearing the stories and songs for the letters x-z. We will complete our final Letterland assessment, which will be shared with you at conferences. Please note that we will have a Letterland parade on October 30th! Have your child come to school dressed in their costume that day, and please join us in the main office hallway to watch our parade at 9:30. This is a great chance to get some amazing photos. The parade will last 30 minutes.
We will complete our Special Friend of the Day and are very excited about all that learned about our classmates. In addition, we learned how to draw a person to include details and clothing, and discussed letter formation, capital versus lowercase letters and sentence formation. I hope all of the children enjoyed sharing their special books with you. Now, we will move on to our first unit in writing, which teaches children that we write to get our thoughts down on paper. I will provide daily modeling of a journal entry with both pictures and print and encourage the students to write about a topic of choice. We will work on narrative writing as well as get an introduction to non-fiction writing and opinion writing over the next few weeks. Students will write facts and opinions about pumpkins, bats, and spiders.
In math, the students will compare written numerals and match numbers to tens frames. The goal is for the students to demonstrate 1:1 correspondence when counting, as well as learn to identify the tens frames with automaticity. We will work on “how many more?” are needed in the tens frame to make 10. The students have been introduced to the terms equation, addition, plus sign, equals sign, partners, and total. Over the next 2 weeks, the kids will work on writing their own equations __+__=__.
Thank you to the parents who volunteered at center time last week. This is a HUGE help to Mrs. Amyot and I because I am able to run a guided reading group and she is able to give more students individualized attention. So, THANK YOU for the parent support!
Friendly Reminders:
We have an Early Release Day on Friday, October 20th with a 1:15 dismissal.
October 27th – farm trip – we have 3 volunteers as of now, but would love to have 2 more parents to help make the groups a little smaller.
Please sign up for a Q1 conference on google doc located on our class Weebly website!
Mrs. Stewart
Scholastic
Meet Your Teachers!
Class List
Daily Schedule
2017-2018 Open House
Letterland Parade
Thanksgiving Tasting Letter
100th Day FUN Newsletter
Valentine's Day Newsletter
Understanding your child's mClass reports
mClass Written Response Question Stems
Nonsense Words - 1
Nonsense Words - 2
10/16/17 and 10/23/17:
Good morning, Parents. Over the next 2 weeks, we will begin very busy units on pumpkins, fall, bats, and spiders! We will learn the life cycle of a pumpkin and make some adorable pumpkin crafts. We will end these themes next week with our field trip to the farm where the students can choose their very own pumpkin to bring home.
In our Daily 5 Centers, the students will read and color a mini-book, focusing on positional words. We will practice segmenting CVC words and matching pictures to word cards, as well as scan QR codes with an iPad to listen to a pumpkin-themed book of their choosing. This QR activity also has the children writing about their favorite part of the story, which is good for comprehension and opinion based writing. Our parent volunteer will be helping the students identify beginning, middle and ending sounds of picture cards. When children identify and manipulate the sounds of words, they become more comfortable with written language and this helps in their literacy development. We also have many partner games available to help review letter sounds. My recent assessments show that many students are knowledgeable in letter identification, but many continue to need practice with letter sounds, especially the short vowel sounds. These activities provide reinforcement of student learning and are enjoyed by the children.
Our Letterland lessons will have us hearing the stories and songs for the letters x-z. We will complete our final Letterland assessment, which will be shared with you at conferences. Please note that we will have a Letterland parade on October 30th! Have your child come to school dressed in their costume that day, and please join us in the main office hallway to watch our parade at 9:30. This is a great chance to get some amazing photos. The parade will last 30 minutes.
We will complete our Special Friend of the Day and are very excited about all that learned about our classmates. In addition, we learned how to draw a person to include details and clothing, and discussed letter formation, capital versus lowercase letters and sentence formation. I hope all of the children enjoyed sharing their special books with you. Now, we will move on to our first unit in writing, which teaches children that we write to get our thoughts down on paper. I will provide daily modeling of a journal entry with both pictures and print and encourage the students to write about a topic of choice. We will work on narrative writing as well as get an introduction to non-fiction writing and opinion writing over the next few weeks. Students will write facts and opinions about pumpkins, bats, and spiders.
In math, the students will compare written numerals and match numbers to tens frames. The goal is for the students to demonstrate 1:1 correspondence when counting, as well as learn to identify the tens frames with automaticity. We will work on “how many more?” are needed in the tens frame to make 10. The students have been introduced to the terms equation, addition, plus sign, equals sign, partners, and total. Over the next 2 weeks, the kids will work on writing their own equations __+__=__.
Thank you to the parents who volunteered at center time last week. This is a HUGE help to Mrs. Amyot and I because I am able to run a guided reading group and she is able to give more students individualized attention. So, THANK YOU for the parent support!
Friendly Reminders:
We have an Early Release Day on Friday, October 20th with a 1:15 dismissal.
October 27th – farm trip – we have 3 volunteers as of now, but would love to have 2 more parents to help make the groups a little smaller.
Please sign up for a Q1 conference on google doc located on our class Weebly website!
Mrs. Stewart