Saturday, October 29, 2016

Week of October 24

This week in...

Reading:
  • Story retelling is an important skill to improve reading comprehension.  I hope you enjoyed listening to your children retell Big Pumpkin!
  • Made a book called called Bippity Boppity Bindergarten, A Bat Flew Over Kindergarten!
  • Looking closely at pictures in books
  • Pictures gives us clues 
  • How to read with a partner
  • We met our first grade reading buddies


 Writing:
  • looked closely and labeling
    • leaves, butterflies, toy animals, our shoes
  • continued to work on tapping out and stretching words like bubblegum


Math:
  • Roll a web
  • Sorting
  • Introduction to attribute blocks
  • Lots of counting games
  • Tricky teens
  • Math centers
  • Monster Squeeze
    • Ask your children to teach you how to play monster squeeze.  It's a great game for developing a mental number line.





Other:
  • We hosted the October Community Meeting and sang Fly, Fly, Witchy
  • Orr butterflies hatched and we released them into the wild!



Halloween Candy Fun!!!

  • Don't forget to estimate, count, and then sort your Halloween candy!!!!
  • Put a bunch of Halloween candy in ABC order
  • Read the Wrappers or make an ABC book with wrappers
  • Sort your Halloween candy 2 different ways 
Reminders:
  • We do not dress up for Halloween 
  • Conferences are next Wednesday and Thursday
  • Please send in or email me a baby picture if you haven't already
  • We could use some plastic spoons

WE HAD OUR FIRST LOST TOOTH OF THE YEAR!