September 26-30

KB’s Week in Review: (Sept. 26-30)

Monday:

Today we went to Music and P.E. We learned more about Johnny Appleseed and about fall.  In our class meeting today we talked about our “stop, walk and talk” bully prevention program.  We improved our Daily Five stamina and read and/or worked on writing for 14 minutes! In Writer’s Workshop we learned how writing can be used to make lists. Ask me what I made a list of! J

Tuesday:

Today we learned how to track (pointing to the words as we read) by using our Fall on the Farm book. This book should have come home, so ask me to read it to you while I track the words. Ask me what I used to practice tracking today!! We also did our first acrostic poem today and had fun coming up with the words.  Today we played a number game with pizzas on the Smart Board.

Wednesday:

Today we read another Clifford book, Clifford’s First Autumn and did some writing. We did some sorting and shape work on the Smart Board and we went to art class.  We did our Daily Five work for 14 minutes today.

Thursday:

Today we went to P.E. and the computer lab. We played a fun game on the computers!  We did a KWL on leaves and wrote facts that we learned in our leaf book.  During Daily Five today some of us got to read with Mrs. Brown and use “telephones” to help us hear ourselves read.  Recess was indoors today due to the rain L

Friday:

Today more kids got to read with Mrs. Brown during Daily Five!!  The rest of us can’t wait to read with her next week! We made a shape scarecrow today. Ask me to tell you how we made them.  Our Jolly Phonics sound was “ng”. Ask me to show you the motion and sound for it.  We hope you have a great weekend!

All About Me:

Next Week’s All About Me is Grant Bernholdt!!

Reminders:

Progress Reports are coming home today!!

No school on October 10^th.

September 19-23

KB’s Week in Review:

Monday:

Today we learned how to make connections from a story to ourselves. We read, From Anne to Zack, and put our thumbs up whenever we made a connection!  We also talked about our pals after reading the book, Clifford’s Pals.  We talked about how to be a good friend!

Tuesday:

Today we went to P.E. and Music. We had a lot of fun playing a game called Jack Frost in P.E.  We made a special project today with our fingerprints after reading the story, The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree.  We finished book 3 of Jolly Phonics and watched a Jolly Phonics video.  We had a fun time looking at everyone’s baby pictures and writing about them.

Wednesday:

Today we read, Go Away Big Green Monster, and made a monster face with many different shapes.  We went to art today and saw Mrs. Bader. We moved our sailboat around the world and got to use the Smart board to choose a reward. We chose Pajama Day! We got to do social centers and love getting time to play with our friends at the end of the day. We learned the sound that /ai/ makes when put together. Ask me what this sound is. J

Thursday:

Today we visited the book fair and made a wish list to take home. Ask me to show you my color book I made. There are even 3 pages left for homework. J Today we went to P.E. and did exercises.  Today in writer’s workshop we filled out an idea sheet to help us come up with new things to write about.  It was a fun day!

Friday:

Today we finished up our Clifford week with Clifford’s Birthday. We wrote about what we would give Clifford for his birthday and made Clifford ears to wear.  We learned the /oa/ sound in Jolly Phonics today!  Ask me what sound those two vowel make. 

 All About Me:

Next week our first “All About Me” will be Ani Avedoumian!!

Reminders:

Progress reports will be coming home next Friday, September 30^th.

Our classroom can purchase books from the book fair on Tuesday, September 27^th.

Week in Review (Sept. 12-16)

KB’s Week in Review:

Monday:

Today we went to both music and P.E. and learned a lot! We finished book 2 of Jolly Phonics and are bringing home our second sound book today. We are working on building our reading stamina and we got to 8 minutes during The Daily Five.  We learned about Writer’s Workshop and practiced writing our own stories. It was a great Monday!

Tuesday:

We worked on our shapes by making a shape car in math today. We went to P.E. and music again! We went out for recess on such a beautiful day. Some of our classmates went to the L.M.C. today all by themselves to check out new books!  We learned the difference between a question and a statement.  We also made an apple that is hanging from our ceiling! We can’t wait for you to see them on Curriculum night!

Wednesday:

Today we had art class and we talked about shapes.  We continued learning about apples and made an apple book to share with you. Today we started PALS. Ask me what I do in PALS.  In Daily Five today we worked on our reading for 9 minutes! We read a silly story titled, Ketchup on Your Cornflakes and made up silly questions.

Thursday:

Today we had P.E. and L.M.C. We learned about Johnny Appleseed! We did a story sequence and made a Johnny Applebear!  During Daily Five, we were able to read to ourselves for 10 minutes!! Way to go! We had fun being the coach and reader during PALS today. Ask me about this!

Friday:

Today we had art again! We love going to our specials!!  We learned all about Constitution Day and even did a fun activity with the flag.  Ask me to tell you the Pledge of Allegiance.  We finished up our apples unit today and will be bringing home an apple book to share with you.  Ask me which color apple is my favorite?

All About Me:

All About Me will be beginning soon. Check the side of the blog for your child’s date.

Reminders:

Please have your child bring in a baby picture of themselves on Monday. If possible, have only the child in the picture. We will be writing about what we liked to do when we were a baby so if the picture has your child doing something as a baby, that would be even better!