Week of August 26

** So by now I hope you all have seen the letter that went home from Principal Gilley. Mrs. Croft is no longer with us. Instead the other teacher is Ms. Genesis Bellot. The students have gotten to meet Ms. Bellot and they are easily transitioning into her as their teacher with me. 

I know many of you wish to meet her. She will be at Open House and I'll try to get her to post a little note on the blog with a picture so that you know what she looks like.**

    
We have a busy week!! Please make sure to look at your child's daily communication folder. We have notes typed into it and we circle your child's conduct every day. (Last week we gave out Treasure Box to those that had their folder initialed by their parents every day. ) On Wednesday, it is an Early Release Day~ we have lunch at 9:50 and Dismissal will begin earlier too. 

Our fun Friday activity is Character t-shirt day.  It could be an animal character or a person~ we're excited to see what the students come in wearing. Also, Michael is signed up to bring snacks in for the class. :)    If anyone else is interested in signing up, please email us. 

SKILLS

we are continuing to practice recognizing letters and correlating them to their sounds. (When I complete letter testing, we'll figure out what letters we need to focus on.) We will also be discussing color words again and reading a teacher made book: The Color Monster. 

Our predictable chart is: The teacher is_______. Every day a few students will be called to give a descriptive word to the sentence.  

READING

Our book this week is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Every day we will focus on a different skill: predictions, retell, connections, opinion and comprehension. My hope is that we get to work in our Reading Journals, however it may just be modeling for the students at this time.

Everyone is sure to love this story!! Check out the youtube video below and enjoy discussing the story with your child. 

WRITING

We are still working on drawing detailed people. Plus we are going to be discussing how we can write sentences to match our pictures. This week we will be writing simple sentences like: I am _____. / I like school.

MATH

We are continuing to practice using our Math Tools~ you'll notice your child bringing home Math Awards once we have completed the practice time for them. 

We will also be starting our District Math Curriculum. You'll notice your child bringing home math worksheets. Some we complete in class and we ask you review when they bring it home. Other papers we may mark as Finish and Return. These papers will be put into your child's daily communication folder. This weeks lessons will be on comparing items and sorting them together. 

 

SCIENCE

We will be discussing "What is a Scientist?" and the tools a scientist uses for his job. Because there is an Early Release Day this week, we will not get to Science on Wednesday.