Mrs. Henry's Classroom: Newsletter 9/28/18

In Reading Workshop this week we learned how all of the book bins in our classroom are organized. We learned our first sight word, "the" and we searched for it in books. We found it all over! We also read our favorite stories by looking at the pictures, remembering the story, and adding our own words. Look for a book sleeve coming home soon! It will contain one of our favorite emergent story books for your child to "read" to you!

In Writing Workshop we learned that if we have more to teach about a topic, we can add another page, but, we have to make sure that the pages go together. We combined our phonics and writing lessons when we learned about using the letter line to help us match sounds we hear in words to the corresponding letter. We are using imaginary rubber bands to stretch out every word and hear as many sounds as possible.

In math this week we applied the concept of making and finding subtle differences in pictures.

For science, we collected all of our weather data for the month of September and looked for weather patterns. Then we put our findings in our science notebook.

In social studies, we read Have You Filled A Bucket Today? and learned how to be bucket fillers! This is SUCH a great story. Seek out a copy if you haven't heard of it. We made a new display in our hallway with our bucket filling ideas. We also learned about different sizes of problems that may arise. We sorted them out by how many people, and how much time is needed to solve them. Lastly, we reviewed "expected" behaviors and had a chance to practice them. See the attached photos for more information.

Lastly, we watched this hilarious video to reinforce our "Whole Body Listening" lessons. You don't want to miss this!Click here for the Youtube video

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