Tuesday, December 23, 2014

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!

Monday, December 22, 2014

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!

Friday, December 19, 2014

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?

Friday, December 12, 2014

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
 

Friday, December 5, 2014

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!