Week in Review

Our greeting for the week: Namaste (Hindi: India)

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This week in school....

• we made some leaves for fall
• we wrote Hello Fall, Good Bye Summer
• we started math choice.  Ask your child which activities they like to do.
• we celebrated Leanna’s birthday!
• we learned a new greeting (ball bounce greeting)
• we learned about the life cycle of a caterpillar.  We have two in our classroom and we look forward to observing the life cycle happen!
• Amber, the albino corn snake, will be coming to stay in our classroom for a few weeks on October 15.
• we learned a song about the months of the year and the seasons of the year.
• we learned about Xtra Math and we started using the iPads in the classroom.
• We started writing workshop.  We learned how to write a small moment.

1. think of an idea (something you do or something that happened to you).
2. Plan (touch and tell across the pages)
3. sketch and write.

• we saw our classroom buddies (ask your child about the activity we did with them)
• Mrs. Schwarm shared about her weekend with Pigeon.  Miss LaFleur is bringing Pigeon home this weekend and will share on Monday.
• In reading workshop we learned how to drop bad habits (a blooper, the tell me, the freeze, and the mumble) and pick up good habits (check the picture, take a sneak peak, scoop up words and phrases, look at all parts of the word, think about what would make sense).
• we added details and our hair to the Colors of Us.
• we continued learned letters in Fundations.  We only have 4 letters to go!
• we had an early release day.

Important Reminders:

• ​10/8 - Columbus Day - No School