Hello Families! Happy 14th week of Young Fives! This is our first full week of December! The weather will be taking a chilly turn! Please label your child’s hats and gloves.
Please send in your child’s permission slip to attend the field trip to Sesame Street Live along with the money for your child as well as any adults who might be attending. I can take two adults on the bus with me. Any other adults will have to follow the bus in a car and pay for parking at the Fox Theater.
We will also be starting a Sock Drive this week. Please consider donating children’s and adults’ new socks for the homeless. The collection will go on until December 22nd.
Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying the components of narrative literature! We are up to 11 minutes of stamina where we are working independently on our Daily 5 choice!!! This week we will continue to practice counting the number of syllables and having fun with rhyming words. In addition, we will practice identifying the ending sounds in words. We will continue practicing taking three sounds and blending them together to make words. So, if I had the sounds, m-u-g… I would blend it to read and say mug. This is one of those emergent reading skills that I talked with many of you about at conferences.
We will learn the letters Jj and Yy. We will also learn the sight words here and can. Please practice writing these letters at home. Below is an example of how to write the letters. Please review the letters in their name as well as the letters Mm, Dd, Gg, Aa,Nn, Ii, Ss, Hh, Oo, Ff, Vv, and, Zz, Pp, Tt, Rr, Uu, Ll, Ww. Please review: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I,it, in, said, for, am, look.
Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 12. We will also continue to practice addition using concrete objects. (ex. I have 2 bears and I add 2 more, how many will I have.)
Science: We will continue learning about the 5 senses as we investigate claims we make about the world around us. We will talk about the different types of weather, (rainy, snowy, sunny, partly cloudy, and cloudy) We will begin graphing the day’s weather in December.
Social Studies: We will continue a unit called “How do we get what we need and want?”. We will continue to look at what are the things we need and how do we get what we need. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions.
Writing: We will work on Opinion Writing! We will will draw, write, and dictate about how we think or what we feel about a topic. ( ex. My favorite animal is……)
Thank you for taking the time to join us for our awards ceremony today! It was so much fun to celebrate and recognize the awesome work of our Oakman Lions! If your child did not get an award today, I am confident that they will be getting one at our next awards ceremony.
Way to go Bucket Fillers and Most Improved Students!
We also enjoyed a story read by a couple of our book buddies from Ms. Earle’s class! We love when we get to spend time with our book buddies!
Our book buddies are great readers!
We also learned the letter Uu! Today your child’s homework is to find 3-5 pictures or items of things that begin with the long u or short u sound! They also need to decorate the two letters I sent home and return these back to school. Thank you!!!
Tomorrow 8 of our Young 5 friends will be receiving awards for either Bucket Filling or Most Improved! Please come and join in on the celebration at 2:30! All are welcome to attend! I hope to see you all there!
Today we learned the letter Ll!!! Your child brought home letter Ll homework today. They need to to bring 3-5 items or pictures of things that begin with /l/ tomorrow.
We also practiced telling our opinion about our favorite character in the book “Duck on a Bike” by David Shannon. We orally told our opinion and then expressed our opinion about our favorite character by creating it out of playdough!
“My favorite character is the horse!”
“My favorite character is the dog!”
“My favorite character is horse too!”
“My favorite character is the cat!”
In Math Workshop today we practiced sorting skittles by color and then counting the Skittles in each group. We then found which group we had the most of! The children did a super awesome job with sorting and counting!! Way to go Young 5s!
We are sorting Skittles by color and counting how many we have in each group!
We are also practicing one to one correspondence as we say each number while counting!
Please join us for an awards assembly on Wednesday, Nov. 29th at 2:30! We have some children in our class begin awarded the Bucket Filler Award as well as Most Improved Award! We are so excited to recognize the amazing things happening in our school! Please join us!
Happy 13th week of Young Fives! I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving Break! I am looking forward to a new week of school and finishing the month of November!
This week your child will bring home a paper letter. This is a family project for you and your child to decorate! Please feel free to be as creative as you would like. These letters will be decorations for our winter Chicka Chick Boom Boom Tree! Have fun!!!
Here is a telling of the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom story, by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Please remember to send your child with hats and gloves each day to school. The weather is cold and we do go outside. It is very helpful if you can write your child’s name on these items as well. Thank you!!!!
Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying the components of narrative literature! We are up to 11 minutes of stamina where we are working independently on our Daily 5 choice!!! This week we will practice counting the number of syllables and having fun with rhyming words. In addition, we will practice identifying the ending sounds in words. A newer skill that we have been practicing is taking three sounds and blending them together to make words. So, if I had the sounds, m-u-g… I would blend it to read and say mug. This is one of those emergent reading skills that I talked with many of you about at conferences.
*This week, if you are out and about, please pick up magnetic letters to practice letter identification as well as the skill of blending three sounds together, (keeping in mind, the middle letter needs to be a vowel; a, e, i, o, u)
We will learn the letters Ll, Ww, and review Uu. We will also review the sight word look. Please practice writing these letters at home. Below is an example of how to write the letters. Please review the letters in their name as well as the letters Mm, Dd, Gg, Aa,Nn, Ii, Ss, Hh, Oo, Ff, Vv, and, Zz, Pp, Tt, Rr. Please review: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I,it, in, said, for, am.
Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 12. We will also be introduced to the concept of addition using concrete objects. (ex. I have 2 bears and I add 2 more, how many will I have.)
Science: We will continue learning about the 5 senses as we investigate claims we make about the world around us. We will talk about the different types of weather, (rainy, snowy, sunny, partly cloudy, and cloudy) We will begin graphing the day’s weather in December.
Social Studies: We will continue a unit called “How do we get what we need and want?”. We will continue to look at what are the things we need and how do we get what we need. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions.
Writing: We will work on Opinion Writing! We will will draw, write, and dictate about how we think or what we feel about a topic. ( ex. My favorite animal is……)
Thank you so much for making my first Thanksgiving at Oakman School such a special one! Thank you for all of the kind words spoken and the yummy food! I truly felt as if I was enjoying a meal with family! 🙂
Here are some adorable pictures from today!
We wore hats like the Pilgrims!
We wore hats like the Pilgrims!
We are thankful for our friends and family!
We are thankful for Oakman School!
We are thankful for food!
We are thankful for our teachers!
We are thankful for love!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
We are enjoying a Thanksgiving feast with our friends!
Thank you for all you do! I am so blessed to be your child’s teacher! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! See you all on Monday!
Hello Families! Please read the announcement that went out on the school blog today!
Dear Parents,
Please join us for an informational meeting to clarify some issues about entry and dismissal, traffic flow during those times, and any other important issues that you’d like to know more about.
When: Tuesday – November 21st , 2017.
Time:- 8:50 AM
Place:- Oakman School – cafeteria.
Thank you for being a part of our school.
الأهل الأعزاء،
نود حضوركم معنا في اجتماع لتوضيح بعض الأمور المتعلقة بحضور و انصراف الطلاب من و إلى المدرسة.
Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving Celebration. All families are welcomed. Please email me to let me know how many will be attending. The Thanksgiving Celebration will take place at 2:00 in our classroom. Please sign in with the office first.
If you are not attending, but signed up to bring food, please have the food warm and ready to eat in a dish no later than 1:45. Thank you!!!
This is a great time for you to check with the office to see if you have a background check on file or if you need to fill one out. You MUST have a background check on file to attend any field trips with us. These background checks take a few weeks. PLEASE start the process as soon as possible.
I am sending home new reading graphs as well as new books in the reading bags. 🙂
