Theme of the Week: Brown Bear– This book has a great rhythm and beat, the illustrations are fun and predictable, our color popcorn sight words are throughout the text, as well as many other popcorn words learned thus far, such as “I,” “a,” “see.” and “dog.”  On Friday we created our own special book that will join our classroom library and our own book retell bracelet. They were super excited to read their bracelets to you!We also had our first BIG GROUP on Friday with Mrs. Iwema’s class, we taught her class the “Cool Bear Hunt” song and dance and shared some gummy bear treats together. I was the mystery reader for their room, we had a super fun afternoon meeting one another! Hoping for more BIG GROUP times to come!

 

Popcorn Words this week: “green”, “the” and “dog”

Next weeks words: “blue”, “is”, “this” , and “his”

Special Event: Walk-a-Thon- Thanks for all your wonderful donations to our school! This event was a HUGE success, and what a beautiful morning to walk! We even got to practice our soccer kicks, shoot some hoops and jump through hoops as we made our way around the track! We had so much fun!

 

 

Math: The children have been learning and reinforcing their knowledge of groups and sets of numbers, graphing (more, fewer, longer, shorter), as well as differentiating shapes that are circles and not circles (squares, rectangles, etc.).  Homework was sent home this week with your child.  They were VERY excited to bring this home and get started.  Thank you for your help with administering this homework and encouraging them on this new task and experience.  The children are looking forward to receiving their homework once a week on Thursdays.

Our number writing practice and poems for this week were:  6= “A stick and a hoop do the tricks, that’s the way to make a six.”  7=”Across the sky and down from heaven, that’s the way to make a seven.”

In our Writing Workshop this week, we read the book “What a Treasure!” by Jane and Will Hillenbrand, and discussed how a treasure is more than just money or a treasure chest of gold.  A treasure is different to everyone, and usually it touches our hearts, like our families and friends.  Thank you for assisting your child this week in selecting a treasure for their treasure bags to share with our class.  I loved hearing and learning about all the many things that are so dear and important to our class. These items helped to be a springboard for our writing this week on our special writer’s workshop paper.  We learned about the parts of the paper and what and where to include each.  The children did a FANTASTIC job for their first time!  We will continue to practice this skill of writing and most of all brainstorming our ideas for topics to write about.

Our first class visit to our school library occurred this past Tuesday.  We had the opportunity to meet Mrs. VandenBerg, our librarian, have her read a story, and check out our first book! The children did a great job with their first library check out and are very proud for the opportunity to independently check out a book each Tuesday. Thank you for reading with your child and enjoy this special time together.

The Explorers for next week will be: Madeline, Dylan, Kendra, Faith, and Nathan!

Important Information and Reminders:

• The annual PE Turkey Trot will take place on Tuesday, October 23, at Eagle Stadium.  If interested in participating, please return your registration with your child by October 8.  I will be there to cheer our class on, hoping for a great class turnout, I know we have some fast runners!

• Book Orders are due this Tuesday, October 2, I will be submitting the order that afternoon! Make your final order today!

• Math Homework is due Thursday

• Library books are due Tuesday

• Information coming soon on Friday parent volunteers, mystery readers, and Fall party planning/helpers and Fall field trip!

Enjoy this beautiful final weekend of September!