News and Information:

Late Start:  Wednesday, September 19th, school begins at 9:35 a.m.

What We Did This Week:

The students continued to learn school rules and classroom procedures.

ELA: 

• Our letters of the week were Rr, Bb
• Our sight words were can, the
• We read stories about coming to Kindergarten, Fall and books with rhyming words.
• Our Poem this week was “I see”
• We are building our “Read to Self” stamina.  We talked about ways to read a book when we don’t know the words yet.
• We wrote in our journals during Writer’s Workshop.  Students are being encouraged to add lots of detail to their drawings.

Math:

• We had 4 lessons this week on classifying to make categories and counting.  Lessons 5-8 in the at home math practice book can be done.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

• We talked about characteristics of a leader.

Science:

• We set up our science notebooks and talked about what a scientist looks like.  We are also collecting evidence of Fall for our Science table.

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media and the Book Fair

We played during Free Choice Time

We took our Math NWEA assessment on the chrome books.

• Alphabet Books were due today (Letter R and Letter B page).  I will return them on Monday.
• Nightly Literacy Homework continues for the month.  These can be turned in every Monday to show progress.
• Reading Bags should come to school every day and be left in the backpack.  I know there is not much in them now but sight words and reading books are coming soon.

**Please remember to pack an afternoon snack separate from the lunch box.

Have a great weekend!