What a week! We talked a lot about our birthdays. We made a paper cake for each month of the
year. Each of us decorated a candle and put it on our birthday month cake. We also took pictures of each month’s
birthday kids.
No one in January
.
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February
No one in March.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
December
We made a human graph to show how old we
are. We held our hands out to make pairs
to see if more of us were five years old or six years old. Lots more of us are five!
We drew a self-portrait and used this to
make a permanent graph to show our ages that will stay up all year. When one of has a birthday we will move our
self-portrait to age 6 or 7!
We learned that our drawings tell
stories. We learned that setting is
where our stories happen. We used
setting as a way to develop stories. The
woods and underwater were the two we focused on first. We learned how to add details to our pictures
to tell more about our stories. Check
out some of our awesome work!
(Sorry everyone! I am not tech savvy enough to know how to turn my pictures!)
We read two books together this week. We read Vegetables and Baby Animals. In these books, we found the site word a. We learned that the letter a can be squished
inside a word or it can have space around it.
When it has spaces around it, it’s a word rather than just a letter! Lots
of us took a turn to point to the words as we read. Then we added these to our book boxes to use
for read to self and read to someone. We
added work on writing to our literacy block.
General Announcements:
General Announcements:
- Next week will begin our fourth week of school! We are working on our morning routines. The kids have three jobs when they come in. They will put away their backpacks, check their take home folder and put it in their seat sack, and move their name stick from absent to here. As we move forward, we are working on building independence and confidence. It would be a great time to hug your child outside our classroom door and let them take ownership of these three morning jobs by coming into the classroom on their own. While I do love to see you too, I want to make sure I get to connect with each of the kids as they come in.
- I've see lots of reading logs coming right along. Keep on reading with your kids! It's neat to see all the titles you've read.
- We're still collecting family pictures. If you haven't sent one in, we would love to see one and hear your child share a little about who is in your family. These will hang in our cubbies! We have many that are already up!
