Wow...September flew by!

I can't believe how quickly September flew by!  The children have done a remarkable job learning how use whole body listening looks and developing class rules.  It was important to have them come up with the rules to help create a class community.

Parent Information

• October 9th we have no school.  It is a teacher professional day.
• I am continuing to send poem notebooks home on Friday...however do not feel that you need to do them on the weekend.  Please return them on Tuesday of the following week.


Literacy


• Continued to build stamina for our two literacy centers; Read to Self & Read to Someone.  They are able to do these centers for 15 minutes each.





• Introduced writing center and word center introducing the expectations for each.
• Fundations - finished reviewing letter sounds and formations.  Began working on "tapping words to read" & "tapping words to spell".  Look for the unit two parent letter to come home.
• Continued writing small moment stories in writer's workshop. Learned that "When we're done; we've just begun".  We are learning to go back and ask question words (who, what, when, where, why & how) to add more detail to our stories.
• Looked at different ways to spell words that challenge us during writer's workshop
Math


• Continued working and reviewing math concepts: add to, put together, take from, and comparing
• Learned how to solve for missing parts
• Learned how to use pictures, numbers and words to create a math argument
• Whole-part-part mats are a helpful too we are using.  Here is a picture.