What a nice way to return back to school! I’m feeling energized about the amount of work we accomplished last week. We refreshed ourselves on our classroom rules and quickly got back into learning routines. And I noticed a big improvement in our tardiness problem – thank you!
Lots of math information went home in the folders on Friday. I hope you were able to read over the materials, and play the two games I sent home with your child. During Academic choice this week children had the chance to play both these games and really enjoyed them! We are moving on to Unit 4 in Everyday Math; be on the look out for more math information and family activities in the coming days.
We finished up the alphabet but that doesn’t mean we are done! Unit 2 in Fundations will be a review of uppercase and lowercase letter formation. This week we also had academic choice to practice reading and writing common sight words. This is a developing skill for many children; we will be doing word work at center time as well as working in small reading groups to enhance children’s skills. To celebrate our completion of the Alphabet we will have our alphabet party on Friday afternoon. What fun!
This week we will…
- Continue to record the daily weather and temperature. We will also make predictions about the weather. Ask your child to explain our daily circle time math sheet to you.
- Use sight and thematic words to write about winter
- Read The Mitten by Jan Brett as a shared reading activity
- Practice rote counting
- Learn about the work and life of Dr. Martin Luther King
- Compare numbers 0-20 through learning and playing a new math game called Top It
- And much more!
I’m hoping to blog a couple of times this week to give you a more in depth look at our learning experiences.
