December 21st-23rd

December 23, 2014

We had a short week but we had lots of fun!

At school this week we:

·        Reviewed all of the letters and letter sounds.  We know all of them now!

·        Introduced tapping

o   Tapping is Fundations’ way to blend words with three sounds.  The students say each sound separately and then blend the sounds together.  The students tap their index finger to thumb and say the first sound, middle finger to thumb saying the second sound and then ring finger to thumb while saying the third.  Then the students blend the sounds and say the word as they drag their thumb across the three fingers beginning with their index finger.

o   We will be further introducing this in January and I will be sending home more information.

·        Wrote about our New Year’s resolutions

·        Earned a recess on the playground

·        Learned about New Year’s Eve

·        Had Mr. H (Mrs. H’s husband) come in to read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas!

·        Enjoyed our Party in the Box snack

·        Invited Mrs. Maxwell’s class to watch The Year without Santa Claus with us

I hope everyone has a fantastic vacation filled with fun, reading and learning!  Your children have made leaps and bounds over the past few months.  I am proud to be their teacher.  Thank you very much for the class gift and my first W.E.S.T star!

Enjoy the holiday break!  See you ‘next year’!

Miss Walsh

Mr. H reading to the boys and girls! Thank you Mr. H!

Reminder!

Just a reminder that tomorrow is pajama day and Party in a Box! We are going to have a lot of fun before heading off for the holiday break!

December 15th-19th

December 19, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned our last lowercase letters: z, qu

Our sight words for the week were: with, she, me

At school this week we:

·        Had Dr. Ribeiro into our class to talk about attributes of 3D shapes!

·        Read a few stories about Hanukkah and Christmas

·        Made a menorah

·        Reviewed numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 during our Number of the Day

·        Worked on our beginning and ending sounds

·        Made patterns

·        Read The Grinch and then wrote about how the boys and girls would make him smile

·        Earned all of our marbles!! So the boys and girls were able to watch The Grinch movie!

·        Worked on a Christmas counting book

Ask your child what else they learned.  Due to a short week next week we will not be introducing new sight words or Fundations letters.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Miss Walsh

How would you make the Grinch smile?

December 8th-12th

 

December 12, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned the letters: x, y

Our sight words for the week were: he, for

At school this week we:

·        Read about Antarctica and learned how the animals live there

·        Did an experiment to see how animals stay warm in the artic temperatures

·        Did a gingerbread man scavenger hunt using our sight words

·        Our numbers of the day for this week were 4 and 5.

o   We introduced tally marks, ten frames, how to write the number name and if it is even or odd

·        Read various gingerbread man books and compared and contrasted them

·        Created our own gingerbread man book

·        Hypothesized what would have happened to the gingerbread man if he swam across the river and then tested our hypothesis and came to a conclusion.

·        Build Christmas trees counting by 10s

·        Finished our fall math journals

·        Created penguins for our bulletin board

 

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week we will be introducing the letters ‘qu’ and ‘z’.  Our sight words will be ‘me,’ ‘she’ and ‘with’.

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Walsh

 

December 1st-5th

December 5, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned the letters: v, w

Our sight words for the week were: he, for

At school this week we:

·        Learned more about hibernation and bears

·        Worked on using a number line

o   Identified missing numbers on a number line

o   Identified one more and one less when given a number

·        Began practicing counting backwards from 10 and counting by 5’s

·        Read sentences with a combination of our sight words and CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words!

o   Ex: The cat it little.  He is big.  I like my dad.

·        Wrote about what we want to be when we grow up

·        Introduced our number of the day packet

o   We did one, two and three so far

·        Created hibernation diagrams

·        Played a dice and Lego building game

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week we will be introducing the letters ‘y’ and ‘x’.   

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Walsh

Busy Bee's working on their hibernation diagrams!

Busy Bee's working on their hibernation diagrams!

Busy Bee's working on their hibernation diagrams!

 

November 24th-26th

 

November 26, 2014

Our sight words for the week were: he, for

At school this week we:

·        Practiced writing our numbers 0-10

o   With a dice game

o   With dobbers

o   Using sky writing

·        Read many books about Thanksgiving and pilgrims

·        Created turkeys by counting by 10s

·        Had a pajama and stuffed animal day!

·        Wrote about our stuffed animals with adjectives

·        Made a list of adjectives to describe our stuffed animals

·        Watched a Magic School Bus clip on forming and testing a hypothesis

·        Came to a conclusion on our hypothesis about planting a pumpkin seed

o   A pumpkin will grow! A plant has sprouted!

·        Wrote about what we are thankful for

·        Played ABC bingo

·        Sequenced 0-10 and then sequenced 0-100 by 10s

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week we will be introducing the letters ‘v’ and ‘w’.  Our sight words will be ‘he’ and ‘for’.

Have a Terrific Thanksgiving!

Miss Walsh

Mrs. H's Pirate Booty Celebration!

Pajama and Stuffed Animal Day!

 

November 17th -21st

November 21, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned the letters: h, l, k

Our sight words for the week were: my, like, we

At school this week we:

·        Learned the five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten number formation songs

o   5. A big fat five does down and around, put a flag on top and see what you’ve found.

o   6. A curve, a loop and a six makes a hoop.

o   7. From left to right make a line that’s straight, then slant back down your seven is great!

o   8. Make an S but do not wait, climb back up to make an eight!

o   9.  A loop and a line make a nine!

o   10. Make a one and a zero again, now you see we’ve made a ten!

·        Put on a play about the first Thanksgiving

·        Read many books about Thanksgiving and pilgrims

·        Worked on counting objects up to 10

·        Discussed the difference between real and fantasy

·        Practiced writing numbers in shaving cream

·        Wrote about what we are thankful for

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week we will not be introducing new letters.  Our sight words will be ‘he’ and ‘for’.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Miss Walsh

November 10th-14th

 

November 14, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned the letters: j, p

Our sight words for the week were: my, like, we

At school this week we:

·        Learned the three and four number formation songs

o   3. Around the tree and around the tree, that’s the way we make a three

o   4. Down and across and down once more, that’s the way you make a four

·        Created word family turkeys using the –at ending.

o   Some words we came up with were: fat, sat, cat, mat, bat

·        Learned about Veteran’s Day

·        Colored a Veteran’s Day book and sight word worksheet

·        Began Moby Max (a math program) on the computers

·        Played a shape board game

·        Worked on the school listening look during Open Circle

·        Identified groups that were greater and less than

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week will be learn the letters h, l, and k.  Our sight words will be ‘we,’ ‘my’ and ‘like’.

I had a professional day today so I hope the boys and girls enjoyed their day!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Walsh

Turkey word families!

 

November 3rd - November 7th

November 7, 2014

This week in Fundations we learned the letters: e, r

Our sight words for the week were: have, is

 

At school this week we:

·        Visited a Clifford website to do a sound sort

·        Wrote in our science journals about our decomposing pumpkin

·        Learned more about pumpkins and leaves

·        Learned how to form numbers 1 and 2 with a song

o   A line straight down is fun, that’s the way you make a one!

o   Around the railroad track and back, two, two, two, that’s the way you make a two!

·        Practiced our rhyming skills

·        Created scarecrows to hang on our bulletin board!

·        Celebrated the fall birthdays with popsicles!

Principal Wagstaff needs 2 parents to be on the council which meets once per month, usually on the first Tuesday from 3:15-4:00.  If you are interested please email me and I will let her know. J

We started Readbox this week!  The students were able to ‘rent’ books on Monday and Wednesday.

Ask your child what else they learned.  Next week will be learn the letters p and j.  Our sight words will be ‘we,’ ‘my’ and ‘like’.

Congratulations to the boys and girls for a great first term! Thank you to those who brought in items for the food drive!

Have a great weekend!

Miss Walsh

Happy Birthday Ryan and Jack Be.!

Happy Birthday Carly!

 

 

 

Food Drive

Beginning on Monday, November 3rd, the Wrentham Public Schools will be collecting canned goods and non-perishables, for the Wrentham food pantry.  Collections will take place throughout the week ending on Friday, November 7th.  In addition, students are encouraged to participate in Express Yourself Day on Friday.  Students are encouraged to wear something that expresses what they are or what they like (i.e. sports outfit, favorite animal).  Please consider participating in this special event.