Week of September 11th

We are working on building independence and encouraging students to be in charge of themselves.  We are asking parents to please have students walk into school and into breakfast on their own, so that they start their day by being independent! Thank you for your support in this!!

Reading

This week in reading we read different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We colored a big bear and filled in the blank "A bear is __." with descriptive words.  

We also retold the story using pictures and a storyboard.  

We have been working on writing our names the school way and used the first letter of our name in an art project and wrote __ is for __ ( P is for Pam) underneath it.

Writing

We started writers workshop this week!  We have learned that writers think about what they want to write about before starting to write (think of a topic) and draw a picture to tell their story.  We have talked a lot about getting ideas from things that happen in real life and read books about real things to help think of ideas.  We are working on being independent during writing time by thinking of our own story, thinking about what we need to draw to tell our story and adding details to our story to make it even better!  

Math

We have continued to learn about shapes this week. We learned a couple of new shapes, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.  We used pattern blocks to make pattern block puzzles.  

We also played Fill the Hexagon with pattern blocks.  We found out that hexagons could be filled with lots of different shapes.

Word Work

This week we learned about the letters B and F.  We practiced the sounds each letter makes and how to form each letter.  We also played a game where the kiddos guessed words that I was thinking of  that began with the letters b and f.