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!