This week in school...
- we celebrated Kevin's birthday!
- Mrs. Schwarm brought home Piggie last weekend and shared the Mo journal on Monday. Viola is bringing home Piggie today. Have fun Viola!
- Viola, Bremmer, Maddie, and David all did Star Name this week.
- we had 3 guest readers. Kevin's sister Mary came in on his birthday to read to the class and Bremmer's sister Maiva and her friend Alessia came in to read to the class today.
- we learned a new math game.
- we opened up math puzzles
- we learned about ST Math and met JiJi the penguin. We are going to start using ST Math on iPads next week!
- we published our first two classroom books (We Are Here and We Are Bucket Fillers)
- we are now able to read anywhere in the classroom during independent reading (as long as it's safe!)
- we have built up our reading stamina! We are now at 18 minutes!
- we started a new anchor chart called "Reading strategies to solve Hard Words. 1. Look at all parts of the word. 2. Get a Running Start. 3. Look at the picture. 4. Get your mouth ready to say the first sound.
- we learned to drop those bad reading habits and pick up good ones (check out the anchor chart below)
- we shared our writing workshop posters.
- we learned about the voice chart.
- Sometimes Mrs. Schwarm is working with a student or a small group. We learned when it's ok to interrupt Mrs. Schwarm and when we should wait. Ask your child about this. :-)
- we started Fundations. We are reviewing all of the letters of the alphabet. So far we have reviewed t, b, f, m, n, i, u, c and o.
- we added details to our faces for the Colors of Us.
- we learned about the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, caterpillar (larva), chrysalis (pupa), butterfly (adult)
- we added the kindergarten trick words to our word wall. They are: a, and, are, has, is, I, me, my, of, see, the, to, was, and you.
- we had picture day and everyone remembered to bring their smile.
Important Reminders
- 9/23 - First day of Fall
- 9/25 - Early release day (12:15 dismissal)
- 9/30 - No School (Rosh Hashanah)