10/31/22 - 11/4/22
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
*Open House will be Wednesday, November 16 (PreK-1) and Thursday, November 17 (grades 2-4). The schedule for both nights will be: Tour classrooms 5:00-6:00, Dinner 5:30-7:00.
*General Reminder: It is that time of the year when cases of lice start to be on the rise. Please be sure to check your children periodically and emphasize the importance of not sharing hats!
What were we up to over the past week?? Lots!! Check it out below!
We:
Read Skelton’s Hiccups, created our own skeletons, and wrote our own advice for how Skeleton should get rid of his hiccups! (on display in the hallway!)
Did some fun Halloween math and word work
Practiced our Power Words with some ghostwriting!
Learned how to use a set of questions to add details to our small moment stories
Started learning how to write an introduction to our stories by reading lots of mentor texts
During reading workshop we learned about making and paying attention to our mental images as a strategy to help with our comprehension
Read and added two more poems to our poetry binders
Started doing some sorting of shapes with a game called Guess My Secret Rule
Learned some new reading strategies (see in the photos below)
Had our first combined classroom celebration by watching Spookley the Pumpkin
Practiced the short vowel sounds with a focus on the letter e
