Please check your child's Friday Folder. There is information about our rescheduled field trip to Shelburne Farms and there is information about some of the social/emotional skills we have been learning and practicing this year. There are some home letters from the We Thinkers program which will give you some ideas of ways you can practice social thinking at home with your child. This week we read a book called Thinking With Your Eyes. When our eyes are looking at someone or something, other people can tell what we are thinking about. We talked about the importance of using our eyes for thinking when adults or our friends are talking to us.
This week in Reader's Workshop, we had some new experiences! We have spent most of our time doing independent reading, looking at the words and pictures in the book. This week we had the chance to try out partner reading! Successful reading partnerships happen when two readers sit side by side, put the book in the middle, and take turns reading (see-saw reading). I was so impressed with our reading partners! They were taking turns and even sharing pages that were their favorites (Wow! pages). We also read our first Scholastic Let's Find Out Magazine. This is a non-fiction magazine that we will read every week. It often relates to seasonal events/holidays. Our first magazine was about the start of Autumn. After choral reading the magazine together, each child got his or her own book to read independently. We learned the sight word "can" and that helped us to read this Autumn counting book.
We also learned the sight word "see" this week while reading a poem about pumpkins. We read the poem many times together and then the children practiced reading it independently with their own mini-pumpkin books! We also completed an art project to accompany our pumpkin books. I hope you had a chance to admire your child' pumpkin patch out in the hallway last night!!
During Writer's Workshop, we began using our Talking and Drawing Notebooks. These are notebooks we will be using to tell, illustrate, and write our stories throughout the year. We are beginning by creating detailed illustrations to tell our stories. As I confer with children, I ask questions about their drawings and stories, encouraging them to add more detail (hair, clothes, weather, etc) so that their readers really understand what is happening in the story. We had a great first three days with our notebooks...lots of stories to tell and pictures to illustrate!
In math, we continue to work on numeral formation (6 and 7); however, this week we also worked with patterns. We created patterns using ourselves and patterns with animal noises. It was like an animal chorus! Then we used unifix cubes to copy and extend patterns. We even learned that some patterns are named by letters, such as ABABAB or ABCABC. Can your child demonstrate a pattern for you at home? We also learned three new Work Places this week: Beat You to Five, Which Numeral Will Win?, and Unifix Cube Patterns. Which was your child's favorite?
Lastly, we learned the letters N and F in Fundations this week. We read stories which highlighted those letters, brainstormed words with those letters as the initial sound, and practiced letter formation. Ask your child to name some items that begin with those letters!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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