Hello Families!

Wow! This week really zoomed by! I missed the children so much during the Thanksgiving break. I enjoyed my week with them and am looking forward to the week ahead. I hope they had a fun time learning and laughing this week too!

I read different narrative stories this week. The children are doing a really great job recalling the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We even practiced making connections to the story. We use the sentence stem, “The part of the story when…., reminded me of…..”. Our favorite story this week, (well, maybe my favorite story this week), was Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion. I loved one personal connection made this week by one of the students. He said, “The part of the story when Harry got dirty reminded me of when I went to the park and got really dirty.” 🙂

We also wrote our opinions about favorite letter of the alphabet! The children wrote about their favorite letter using the sentence stem, “I like the letter ___ because___.” we also did a fun activity the letter that helped us increase the strength of our fine motor muscles in our hands as well as our hand-eye coordination. Please check out this writing and this activity in our classroom!

In Social Studies we drew and labeled a need as well as a want. The children did a great job stretching for the sounds! Please continue to encourage them to stretch for the sounds in words as they practice writing at home. Today, we talked about goods and services with a deeper focus on what is a service. A service is a job that is done for us. (ex. teacher, police officer, barber, baker, farmer)

In science, we discussed the forces of push and pull. The children worked in their table teams to sort pictures of things into the categories of push or pull. Some of the pictures lead to conversations about how they can be both a push and a pull. 🙂

In math we have been practicing addition with objects as well reviewing numbers and quantities. We used a circle map to show our given number in multiple ways. We showed the number with drawings, tally marks, stickers, and by decomposing the number into two parts to create a number model. (ex. 7 can be decomposed as 5+2=7)

Thank for you completing the family project for the Chicka Chicka Boom boom winter tree! The tree looks beautiful!!!

Monday is a pizza sale in the cafeteria after school!

Monday is also the book fair. Please check your child’s folder for a paper with some of the great books that will be for sale at the book fair. Each book you purchase helps our school get books! If you are sending money for your child to purchase books, please do so in an envelope with your child’s name and book fair on it!

December 7th is picture retake day! If you are not satisfied with your child’s school pictures, please return the package you paid for this day.

Monday is also the first parent technology meeting of the school year at 2:00!! Please consider attending this!

Please check your child’s folder for the homework for hand writing as well as math. These are due on Monday!

The handwriting test for letter Xx and Oo will be on Monday!

Thank you for all you do!!! I hope you all enjoy your weekend!!!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Enjoy the pictures!

We like our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree!

We sorted pictures with our team of things that can be pushed or pulled!

We sorted pictures with our team of things that can be pushed or pulled!

We cut and glued paper holiday cookies onto a pretend tray and added the cookies to create a number model!