Monday News

Happy Monday!

Today we started with our morning work (focusing on capital and lower case matching, sight words, and rhyming). We then went right into our shared reading time. During shared reading, the students learned the theme for our new unit (Plants and Animals Have Needs) and then we read an informational text. Students then worked together to determine text importance, identify punctuation, and read with expression. After shared reading, we did our regular morning message, calendar, and Daily News routine (focusing on counting, place value, and our new letter - Ii and sight words - can and she). 

We went outside for the first half of our recess; however, the rain really started falling, so we finished with an indoor recess. 

Reading groups were filled with letter ID, letter sounds, tapping out sounds, writing the sounds, ABC books, handwriting, and listening. 

After reading groups, Ms. Morgan taught our class a math lesson - all about rectangles. The students did a beautiful job listening and engaging in the lesson.

Our afternoon was filled with lunch, recess, Alpha Tales (Ii), extended read (focusing on informational text features and new facts we learned), PE, snack, show and share, and free choice centers. 

Letters Taught:

- Mm

-Aa

-Ss
-Tt
-Nn
-Ii

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

-I

-like

-the

-we
-see
-go
-of
-in
-can
-she

Important Information:

1. Communication folders came home today. Our field trip permission slip is in your child's folder. Please KEEP the information letter and RETURN the permission slip as soon as possible. Please let me know if you have any questions!

2. In your child's folder there is also a fun project for your kiddo to do! Your child has a turkey that needs a disguise! Please know that this is NOT meant to add extra stress to your life! It's totally fine if your child just wants to color the turkey in a disguise OR you can get really into it! REMEMBER - there is zero judgment! Make it a project that works for your family! 

3. Take Home Books were collected, exchanged, and sent home today! Please remember to utilize RAZ Kids for extra reading practice.

4. The Book Fair is still open through this week (it's located in the library).

5. We will have popcorn Friday (11-17).

6. 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).