News From the Jungle

We had a great week! It was full of tons of learning and new activities!

Upcoming Events

10/24 PBIS Celebration (school-wide bingo)

10/26 Pumpkin Patch (Thank you PTA)

10/31 Costume Parade (all families welcome to parade at 2:30)

Agenda for the Week

Reading and Writing:  We worked on recognizing and writing the letter F and the letter U. We learned the sound of each letter and practiced identifying objects that begin with each letter sound. Please continue to help your child correctly hold a pencil and form each letter.

We completed a R.A.N strategy on bats. The children were read books about bats and we pulled out the key details and information to complete our “Can, Have, Are” paper and to complete our learning about what we thought we knew about bats and new facts we learned along the way. The children labeled a bat and also asked friends if they like bats (yes or no) and then graphed it. The children also worked on comparing with tally marks and graphing and asked 10 friends which they liked best, spiders or bats. Here is pictures of our completed work hanging in the hallway:

I began teaching the children about adjectives this week. We practiced all week long. The children learned that an adjective is a describing word. We completed several worksheets and practiced identifying adjectives within sentences. Here is the adjective video we use to help support our learning:

We also reviewed that a noun is a person, place, thing, or animal. Here is our noun video:

The link to  create name tracers is also great for creating sight word tracers for your child.

If you would like to create tracing pages for your child, visit the website below:

https://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/printdots/singleword/index.html

Directions: Scroll down until you see a gray rectangle which says, “Step 1: Enter student name, then type your child’s name in the first box and the second one which says, “word” OR type in sight words. Choose the size you would like, size 2 or size 3 are best. Then click print.

Here are some videos we use in class to help with letter recognition and letter sound identification:

https://youtu.be/MCwiFQh3BZk

Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 13 and 14. We continue talking about shapes and began learning about 3D shapes.

This week we completed a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) about “How many dinosaurs are in lake?” There was a picture of dinosaur feet under water. The children had to think about how many legs belong to a dinosaur. Then they had to try to figure out how many dinosaurs were in the lake. This was a great way to get us counting and get the kids talking to each other about math.

We continue talking about place value through counting the days of the year and learning that numbers in the teens start with a one.

Here are a few videos we use in class:

Science: We began talking about push and pull. We also wrapped up talking about different body parts and participated in skeleton centers. The children traced their bodies and added in the bones, labeled a skeleton, completed a dot-to-dot skeleton from numbers 1 – 29, made bones with play-doh, sorted and graphed Bag of Bones Cheetos, and made a skeleton craft with q-tips. The q-tip skeletons are still drying and will come home on Monday. The children had so much fun with these activities! Enjoy the pictures below:

Thank you to all of the parents that came to help with our skeleton centers. We could not have had a successful rotation without you! If you are interested in helping with projects, crafts, and parties in the future, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org

Social Studies: We continue learning how to be a good friend and student. We review our rules and procedures daily. Currently the children are working hard at trying to win the lunchroom challenge. The children must stay in their seat, raise their hand if they need help, and clean up after themselves. After talking with the lunch moms, they said our group is struggling with cleaning up after themselves. Please reinforce this skill at home and help them become independent with cleaning up their own messes!

Housekeeping Items:

I know these items have been repeated for a few weeks, but I still need your help in implementing the items below:

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!