Thank you to everyone for attending parent/teacher conferences last week. I am so glad that I got to meet with all of you and talk about what is happening in the classroom and the progress that I am already seeing in these first two months of school. As we head into November, please make sure that you look at the school calendar as we do not have a late opening this month. Please note that students do not have school on Monday, November 10 and Tuesday, November 11. There is also no school on Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28.
As of right now, I am not planning on doing a homework journal with students. However, I would like students to be reading at home with you EVERY night and I will be sending home Parent Pipelines with reading strategies that students are working on in the classroom. These will have suggestions for how to help your child at home. Please let me know if you would like additional support in fostering at home learning.
We have focused on all letters and sounds in our classroom through Zoo Phonics. This is reinforced with daily phonics practice. However, we have spent more time on the letters/sounds /m/ /t/ /a/ /i/ /f/ /d/ /s/. Students have also been introduced to the following Kindergarten Sight Words: I, a, am, we, will, see, have, go, can, like.
We finished up our pumpkin unit last week, and planted pumpkin seeds to see if they would sprout, even though this isn't the right season. We put some seeds in water so we could see what happens to the seed, and we put some seeds in dirt. We also filled a pumpkin with dirt and watered it to see if the seeds inside would grow... I will post pictures if anything happens!
I posted pictures to our shutterfly account. We did a scavenger hunt with our fourth grade buddies and we had a special presentation on germs and hand washing from the Student Nurse at our school.
As of right now, I am not planning on doing a homework journal with students. However, I would like students to be reading at home with you EVERY night and I will be sending home Parent Pipelines with reading strategies that students are working on in the classroom. These will have suggestions for how to help your child at home. Please let me know if you would like additional support in fostering at home learning.
We have focused on all letters and sounds in our classroom through Zoo Phonics. This is reinforced with daily phonics practice. However, we have spent more time on the letters/sounds /m/ /t/ /a/ /i/ /f/ /d/ /s/. Students have also been introduced to the following Kindergarten Sight Words: I, a, am, we, will, see, have, go, can, like.
We finished up our pumpkin unit last week, and planted pumpkin seeds to see if they would sprout, even though this isn't the right season. We put some seeds in water so we could see what happens to the seed, and we put some seeds in dirt. We also filled a pumpkin with dirt and watered it to see if the seeds inside would grow... I will post pictures if anything happens!
I posted pictures to our shutterfly account. We did a scavenger hunt with our fourth grade buddies and we had a special presentation on germs and hand washing from the Student Nurse at our school.