Dear Family,
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
Reading
Writing
Phonics
Math
Science
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. A message from Mrs. Pelkey...
Open House is this Tuesday, September 25th from 7:00-8:00. I look forward to seeing you!
Ask me about...
Miscellaneous
- the ball roll greeting
- the brain break song, The Button Factory
- our poem of the week, Johnny Appleseed Song
- the King and Queen Bees: Kat, Romelo, Fiona, and Parker
- our first music class with Ms. Gilman
- our first technology lesson with Mr. Ahern
- learning how to log in to the laptops
- doing the Friday dance with Roshini
Reading
- beginning to build our independent reading stamina
- making a reading plan to read more and more
- reviewing what to do at the beginning, middle, and end of a book
- the book, Johnny Appleseed by Jane Kurtz
- 3 ways to partner read: echo read, seesaw read, choral read
- setting personal goals as readers
Writing
- reviewing the steps for writing a story: think of an idea, plan, write
- thinking of ideas: write about a thing you do or a thing that happened to you
- planning a story: touch and tell, then sketch across all pages
- what it means to sketch
- telling our stories to our writing partners before writing
Phonics
- letter formation for the lowercase letters: c, o, d, s, e, r
- chanting the letter, keyword, and sound for each letter
- sky-writing lower case letters and tracing letters on the rug
- plane line letters vs. plane line round letters
- how to stretch vowel sounds
- how to clip some consonant sounds
Math
- finding partners for the numbers 6 and 7
- switching partners to find the same total (e.g. 3+4 and 4+3)
- the number 0 is a partner with every number
- finding patterns within addition and subtraction (e.g. one more, two more, or one less, two less)
- showing math partners with the blue stair steps, yellow number cards, and with our fingers
- showing math partners with circle drawings and math mountains
- adding and subtracting with the number zero
Science
- making a chart about what scientists do and don't do when they are doing science
- sorting objects by properties
- learning about properties, such as size, shape, color, weight, and texture
- what it means to observe or make an observation
- using our senses to make observations (except taste!)
- observing our class plants
- recording our observations in our science notebooks by drawing only what we see
- labeling our science drawings
Sincerely,
Your child
P.S. A message from Mrs. Pelkey...
Open House is this Tuesday, September 25th from 7:00-8:00. I look forward to seeing you!