Fall is finally here and we are pretty excited about it! We will be analyzing the changes that occur when Summer turns to Fall and then Fall to Winter through poems, hands-on activities, stories, and art projects.
This past week we continued our review of letters and letter sounds using jolly phonics and our printing booklets. We worked on sorting word families and have begun to learn more about our literacy stations. We learned about what good writers do before, during, and after they write. We also have begun to learn the structure of a sentence and the three things we must remember when we write a sentence (capital letter, finger spaces between words, and a period, exclamation mark, or question mark at the end!).
We received a letter from Ms. Perkins’ class and we were so excited! We quickly read their message and then learned a bit about the structure of a letter (a concept we will build upon this year!) and then composed our own letter in response. We are eagerly awaiting a reply!
We have completed our patterning unit and will begin our shapes and sorting unit this week in numeracy
In health we learned more about “Bucket-filling” and how the Earth has a bucket, too! We read books about our Earth and thought of ways we can fill it’s bucket. We came up with some excellent ideas, like ride our bikes as often as we can, plant trees and flowers, and save our leftover food from the night before!
In social studies we are still learning about rules. We discussed what happens when rules are broken and the consequences of our choices. We had quite an indepth discussion about how our brains are in our heads, our heads are attached to our necks, and our necks are attached to our bodies…so who controls our choices and behaviors? WE DO! If we choose not to follow rules we then must face consequences. We had some fun with role-playing. For example, we pretended to be people who were running in the classroom. Students realized that if they broke the rule of “no running in the classroom” they could trip and fall, and hurt themselves. We had a great time!
THIS WEEK:
Welcome Back BBQ on Tuesday
Terry Fox Run on Thursday ***if there are any parents who would like to walk with our class and Ms. Perkins’ class, please let me know. We are walking at 2:00***
Orange Shirt Day on Friday.
Excited for another great week!
