We finished our first five day week. I'm sure the children were tired at the end of the week and I know they'll adjust to the schedule more and more over the next weeks. We have completed our study of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly (except for one last chrysalis which has yet to complete its metamorphosis). Now, we will be working with the theme of apples in preparation for our September 25 apple picking field trip. We will also continue our "Letter a Day" and work on activities around the book "Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom". We look forward to Open House on Thursday night when we can share many of the projects we have made and show you around our classroom.
Literacy: We continue working with our "Letter of the Day" Thus far, we have discussed the letters and sounds of:
Aa "apple" /a/
Bb "bear" /b/
Cc "cat" /c/
Dd "duck" /d/
Ee "Ed Elephant" /e/
Ff "fish" /f/
Gg "goose" /g/
Hh "horse" /h/
Please review these letters and sounds at home as it will help your child become familiar with them. The link below will take you to a "poster" of our keywords for letter sounds.
Alpha Friends Graphic
We have been spending time each day on Quiet Reading with our book baskets. Our book baskets are gradually filling with books we have created in school. You will see them at Open House. The first time we did silent reading, we lasted for 30 seconds. On Friday, we were up to four minutes. Silently reading at home will help the children develop their stamina. It's a little trickier at school as there are so many potential distractions, but we're improving! This week we will learn about "Partner Reading".
Math: We continue focusing on counting from 1 to 30. We are also concentrating on reading the numbers 1 to 10, creating sets of numbers up to 10 and sorting objects.
Wish List: If you find a great sale and are able to donate any of the following to our classroom, we would appreciate it: plastic spoons, bathroom sized paper cups, brown paper lunch bags, sandwich size Ziplock bags, toothpicks, Tacky glue, dry erase markers or seasonal stickers. Thanks!
Lunch Money: Thank you for putting your children's lunch money in envelopes with "lunch money", the student's name, Mrs. Maurer and the student ID # on the outside. It is so helpful. Please know that you can pay for a week or more at once or make a deposit into your child's account so that the money is there whenever they need to access it.
Coming Events:
Monday, September 17: Library Today. PLEASE RETURN LIBRARY BOOKS.
Tuesday, September 18: Art today.
Wednesday, September 19: PE today. PLEASE WEAR SNEAKERS. Ms. C, our art teacher, and I will continue to co-teach our project based on the book "Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom".
Thursday, September 20: Miss Patty, our guidance counselor, will teach a social skills lesson. Music today. OPEN HOUSE from 6:00 - 7:30pm.
Friday, September 21: PE today. PLEASE WEAR SNEAKERS.
Sunday, September 23 @8:20pm: The Patriots will hopefully recover from this week's performance and play well against the Baltimore Ravens.
Monday, September 24: Library Today. PLEASE RETURN LIBRARY BOOKS.
Tuesday, September 25: Apple Picking Field Trip with Mrs. VDC's class.
Wednesday, September 26: NO SCHOOL
WOW- you have a lot of girls in your class! :) Thanks for the updates and reminders. It's great to have something to refer back to and not have to find a place on the fridge.
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