Nov 3rd Newsletter

Curriculum this week:

The color brown
sight word: am
# 8-modeling many ways (writing numeral, writing english/spanish word, ten frame, tallies, drawing a set of objects, number line circling/underlining 8, ABC line underlining/circling the 8th letter, making 8 dollars, 8 cents)
letter sounds and vocabulary for letters J and B
subitization- identifying the number for various dot patterns
identifying and putting #'s 1-20 in order
writing #'s to 20
identifying the shape- cube

Guided reading groups are working on: print concepts and reading books on their level, some groups are working on a phonics program where they use a set of letters that they manipulate to build words- these groups will bring home a phonics worksheet for homework using the same letters we used that day in class

During shared reading time we are working on the comprehension concepts of : setting, characters, sequence of events

Handwriting- we've worked on upper case letters that start at the top left corner
(B, D, E, F, H, K, L, M, N, P, R, U,V, W, Z)

In writer's workshop we've worked on:

• thinking of a topic we know (have personal experience of) that we can write on
• drawing your story
• labeling your picture
• writing something to go with your story by writing letters you hear when you say the words

Wear brown and bring your teddy bear on Friday. We'll celebrate with our teddy bear picnic at 12:15

Please sign up for your parent conference on the blog. These start on Monday, Nov 8th.

Apple Feast photos are here!
With the help of many parent volunteers and donations of supplies the class rotated through these centers and learned to compare and contrast attributes, some concept of measuring and writing down their data which we used to make a class graph.

They tasted apple juice and cider, compared apple jelly to apple butter, tasted dip with apple slices, tasted store bought to class made applesauce, made caramel apples and apple milkshakes. We listened to nonfiction and fiction books on apples and played apple games and activities.



apple milkshakes yum!!



juice or cider?



does apple butter and jelly look and taste
the same?



tasting apple sauce

making caramel apples

"Help our school help Haiti"

This spring a group of teachers are going to Haiti to bring supplies and help some schools.

Kindergarten is responsible to donate playground supplies-deflated/blow upable balls, jumpropes, etc.

Also, Mr. Knott is collecting cash to buy water filtration systems to provide clean water that will help with the Cholera problem.