Friday Newsletter

Lot's of fun and learning again this week! Here's what we've been up to!

Reading
This week was a review week for the sight words (a, my, that, the) and the handwriting (a, n). We began our reading centers this week too. We read the decodable book "That Nan" focusing on letter sounds and using the pictures to make inferences and predictions. We also rotated around to literacy centers. One center focused on recognizing letters by using student names, one was reading a pumpkin poem and drawing pictures and the last was listening to books on a website called Tumblebooks.

Writing
As mentioned in an early post, we are working on stamina in writing. The September journals will be coming home soon. I had the first page torn out to put in their portfolios.

Math
Shapes was the focus of this week. The students looked for different shapes in the classroom and created minibooks. They also used a 'feely' box to reach into and try to identify shapes by number of sides. The kids also used playdough to create shapes and letters. Finally, we also talked about direction words (over, beside, under). We continued practicing our handwriting packets to learn how to write the numbers.

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A HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated items to the class! You are all SO generous. Thank you for making our classroom more enriched.

Another thank you to all the wonderful volunteers that have come in. You have NO IDEA how valuable you are to me! Thank you for all of the monotonous tasks I have laid out for you to complete and thank you for your enthusiasm when you are working with kids. I hope it has been a positive experience for you!

Have a great weekend!
~Jennifer