We are collecting Box Tops- our first collection is October 30th.
This is a great opportunity to help our school earn some extra money. Just cut them out and send them in... I will collect our class box tops.
Stallion Stamped is Saturday October 17th from 11-2. Hope to see you there!
Reading
We started Literacy Stations in reading this week and the kids love it!! They are having so much fun working independently or with their partner. This week we only had 8 literacy stations (next week we will have 10)- each day the kiddos go to 2 different literacy stations. The literacy stations are Writing, Star, Math, Listening, Poetry, Smartboard, Word Work, and Storytelling.
At writing the kiddos worked on labeling an apple picture. Right now I want them to try and identify the first sound they hear for each part of the picture.
At star the kiddos used their fine motor skills to color, cut, and glue an apple to make an apple puppet.
At math the kiddos played a shape game with their partner. They had to match the shape they got with the picture of real shapes on the board (square = present, circle = ball).
At listening the kids listened to books on cd. They got to hear fluent readers read with expression and they practiced book handling skills by holding the book and turning the pages.
At poetry kiddos added our fluency poem to their poetry notebooks. They are illustrating the poem to match the words and then rereading the poems in their notebooks.
At smartboard partners got a choice of playing 2 different activities. Alphabetic Flowers is where the kiddos put the flowers in alphabetical order. Acorn Counting is where the kiddos
At word work we turned an apple slice into something new, like a boat or the moon. Then filled in the sentence "I used to be an apple wedge but now I am__." I encouraged the kiddos to write the first sound of whatever they turned their apple slice into.
At storytelling we retold Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
Writing
This week in writing we continued to come up with a topic to write about, picture it in our minds to help plan the story, sketch our story and add lots of details, and label parts of our story. We also published a piece of writing on the last day in September. This is something we will do monthly. We looked at all of our writing over the month and picked the best story to color in. We talked about how illustrators first sketch the story like we did then go back and add details and colors. I sent home the kiddos writing for the month and I hope that you enjoyed reading their stories with them!Math
In math we are working on numbers to 5. We have been practicing how to form each number correctly by using white boards. We have also played a game to help practice where we rolled a dice, counted the dot and wrote the number we see. We had a lot of fun and the kids tried to beat me in writing the number faster! I have seen a lot of improvement this week in formation! It is really tricky to write those curvy 2's, 3's and 5's but we are working hard and getting better and better each day!!
