News from the Jungle

We celebrated the 50th day with our GLOW PARTY! The children were able to GLOW all day long, but we specifically concentrated all of our glow items to our math centers in the afternoon. The children used glow sticks to make 2D shapes, pipe cleaners to make 3D shapes and numbers, playdough and tape to create ten frames, cups to create towers and practice counting to 50, and more! Thank you to all of the parents who donated to our GLOW party! Enjoy the pictures from our 50th GLOW!!!

Upcoming Events

11/11 Book Fair in Library (2:30 -3:00)

11/12 Conferences – If you signed up for this date, reminders of the time you signed up for will come home a week prior!

11/26 PBIS – Turkey Bowling

11/27 – 11/29 No School! Happy Thanksgiving!

Agenda for the Week

Reading & Writing:  This week we began learning about opinion writing. The children learned that an opinion is something they think or feel and that their thoughts, likes, and feelings may be different from than others. The children practiced writing their opinion about which food they would take on a picnic with them and why. We learned that our why word is the word “because.” I am trying to get the children to extend their sentences by using the word because and telling why they prefer one thing to another.

Please continue to have your child practice writing sentences at home by pretending they are holding an imaginary rubberband and stretching it as they slowly say the word they are trying to spell. Next week we will begin learning how to write opinion pieces.

List #2 will be assessed on 11/20. As a reminder the words are: my, you, what, are, now, is, of, so, how, many, where.

All children are receiving one-on-one tutor time on the sight words using flash cards, magnetic letters, dry-erase white boards, and much more! If your child already knows the words on the list, we are working on having them write them! They have not truly mastered the word until they can read it and use it in their writing as well!

This week we worked on the letters Ii and Rr, as well as the sounds these letters make. We learned how to write each letter and where each letter should be written on the line.

Please utilize RazKids, Readingeggs, and Mathseeds at home. These are all wonderful resources to progress your child’s skills. When your child first logs onto Readingeggs and Mathseeds, it will ask them to take an assessment. This assesses their skill set and places them at the lesson that is best suited for them. Some of your children may start on lesson one or some may start on lesson nine. I love these programs because they place the kids at their own learning level!

I updated all of the children’s reading levels in Raz Kids so now when they log on the lessons will be tailored to their individual reading level!

Math: We began discussing 2D and 3D shapes. We used these two videos in class to support our learning:

Science: We began talking about different types of weather and discussing the different seasons.

Social Studies:  We began discussing the difference between a need and a want and identifying which is which.

Housekeeping Items:

Indoor Lineup

Remember, even during indoor lineup, no parents are allowed in the building unless you have signed in at the front office.

Winter Apparel

Please practice putting on and taking off coats, boots, shoes, scarves, gloves, etc. As well as buttoning/zipping coats and tying their own shoes. Your child should be able to do all of these things independently!

Folders

Please make sure to empty the folder 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. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized