Mrs. Henry's Classroom: Newsletter 10/12

We are wrapping up our unit on emergent reading this week. We have learned so much! See our anchor chart of lessons in the photos below. We are also reading sight word books that will be coming home soon. We know how to read these books with accuracy! We are careful to read them with a pointer finger so our voice doesn't get ahead of the text.

We began a new unit in Writing Workshop this week! We are working at planning our drawing on the page and hearing many sounds within words.

In our math lessons this week, we made connections between numbers of objects within a set and number names up to seven. We learned that numbers can be represented in various ways, for example, seven can be a picture of four trucks on the top and three trucks on the bottom, or seven can be five dots on the top and two dots on the bottom. We played a matching game where we paired up sets of objects by the amount.

We also did our first problem solving Exemplar task. We learned that visualizing a problem first can help us solve it. Then we made a manipulative model (see photo below).

We began a new unit in science this week, observing clouds. We looked at their shape and color, and how fast they moved, if at all. Then we recorded and labeled our findings in our science notebooks.

We reviewed fire safety this week and enjoyed a surprise visit from some firefighters! We told them everything we know, including our family's safe meeting place. Then we wrote them a thank you note!

News and Notes:

Darien Fire Station Open House:
Save the Date: Kindergarten Halloween Parade: 10/31 at 9:45 am. All are invited to attend. Look for a note coming home soon with more information.