The Buzz in Room 103: October 30-November 3: Halloween!

Hello,

We had a busy week last week and we did fill our heart jar. The children voted to have an extra long recess and since Friday was such a beautiful day, that's what we did at the end of the day. We also had our first "Second Grade Book Buddy" meeting on Thursday and we met in the outdoor classroom space. Ms. Warnock's class was amazing and the kindergarteners enjoyed hearing the books they picked out for us. We had a whole school community meeting as well and discussed the importance of honesty and we were introduced to a school wide initiative to collect cans of food for a local food pantry. Mrs. Kane has more about that in her newsletter.

This coming week-

Tuesday is Halloween: HERE is the information for room 103

Thursday is Shaker Lane's first CULTURAL FAIR! It will be from 5:30-7:00 and will be a fun, informative night for families.

The children will:

Language Arts-

learn a new trick word- play
learn to recognize, name and produce the sounds of letters p, j
identify the beginning sound in a word and listen if a word ends in the /p/ sound
put letters in ABC order
match lower to upper case letters
practice writing the letters learned to date with a mulitsensory approach
arrange word card to make simple sentences to practice sight words and 1:1 correspondence when reading

Math-

counting forward to and backwards from 10
drawing to represent an add/sub problem
using objects to represent add/sub story
matching numbers to quantity
comparing numbers 0-10
counting with 1:1 correspondence

Science-

participate in a "Monster STEM" project
continue to compare leaves and trees

Social Emotional-

second step lesson #9- same or different (it is ok if you are not exactly the same as your friends!). This will help the children understand the concept of acceptance.

Here are some pictures from last week!

BOOK BUDDIES! It was so fun for me to see so many of my former students reading confidently to my new students!