Monday News

What a great day!

We started our time together with morning work (focusing on matching capitals/lowercase, rhyming, and sight words). We then transitioned to our shared reading time, where the kiddos worked on visualizing story events, identifying capital and lowercase letters, and reading a question with fluent expression. When shared reading was over, we went right into our morning message, calendar, and Daily News routine. Today we focused on reading graphs, sight words, and counting. 

We had a delightful time outside in the snow for recess. Thank you for sending your kiddos is their warm snow gear! If you have time, please start teaching your child how to put on their snow gear and in what order (for example, zip your coat before you put on your gloves). This will help us get in and out of our gear so much faster (especially since we have to do it three times a day). 

After recess, we went right into reading groups; where the kiddos worked on letter ID, letter sounds, sight words, reading, ABC books, handwriting, and listening.

During writing, we continued to work on opinion writing. The students are doing a beautiful job tapping out and writing the sounds they hear! Just a loving reminder, we say the Qq sound as "coo," the Ww sound as "woo," and the Yy sound as "ye." I made a really great (ha ha) video of how to say the sounds (shot by my 2nd grade daughter). If you would like me to send it to you, please just let me know. 

Our afternoon was filled with lunch, recess, extended read (focusing on retelling key story events), PE, snack, show and share, quiet time, and free choice centers.

Letters Taught:

- Mm

-Aa

-Ss
-Tt
-Nn

Sight Words Taught:
*Practice reading and writing these!*

-I

-like

-the

-we
-see
-go
-of
-in

Important Information:

1. Communication Folders were sent home today! Just FYI - in the communication folders, there is information about how to log into RAZ Kids. RAZ Kids is the exact program that I've printed their Take Home Books from. With this log in information, your child has access to many more books at their Take Home Book level. There are also many fun incentives that encourage reading! 

2. Take Home Books were collected, exchanged, and sent home today!

3. Please continue to practice the Magic Five with your kiddo!

4. If you haven't already, please email me if you'd like to join us on our Dec. 14th field trip! For safety and space reasons, we cannot have siblings join us on the field trip. Thank you for understanding!

5. Please send in $10 cash for your child's field trip lunch. I will collect all the money ahead of time and then make little field trip bags for each child (with their money inside). 

6. Nov. 6th is the next PTO meeting.

7. Donuts with Dad is Nov. 8th from 8:00-9:00am. There will be donuts in the cafeteria for you to enjoy together, as well as the book fair in the library. Please note, there is an morning all district meeting on Nov. 8th. Mrs. Snider will not be here and our classroom will be closed. All writing and art will be in the hall for you to enjoy!

8. The Veteran's Day assembly will be on Nov. 9th from 
10-10:45am. Just a loving reminder, our class will be singing two songs at the assembly (please dress your child in red, white, and blue) and please send your pictures to Mrs. Wiser (tomorrow is the last day)!