Oct. 6-10th BOOK FAIR and FUN RUN Info!

 

Hello Families,

Last week was so much fun! The students enjoyed "camping" and the creation station (both C activities). We watched a Wild Kratts show with popcorn about how foxes use their senses. 

We will be going to the book fair as a class on Thursday during our library time. It is helpful if students come with money in a baggie or envelope, labeled with the amount and their name. It is suggested that $11 will cover a $9.99 book + tax.  Of course you can go as a family during the after school times on Wednesday  (5-7:00). Come and guess who is behind the mask! There will be "masked readers" at the evening book fair (between 5:30-6:15) and students are invited to guess who they think the reader might be.

FUN RUN UPDATE:

use this code to register your child and they will get a free t shirt!

The Fun Run on October 17th will be replacing the Springfest event, which is Shaker Lane's biggest fund raiser. The money raised will go toward buses for field trips, all school programs (such as Kindkids Music, Pumpernickle Puppets, and other enrichment programs) and SO much more. It will be "run" 😆 during the school day so no need to add to your already busy calendars. It will be a super fun movement break during our day👏!

FUN RUN VIDEO #3!!

This week:

• Wednesday- Family book fair event 5-7:00 and Masked Reader 5:30-6:15
• Thursday- our class visits the book fair during our library time
• Thursday- we will visit the Imagatorium!
• Friday- teachers dress in a funny costume (to celebrate reaching a fundraising goal for Fun Run👏)

This week, the students will:

Language Arts-

• learn a new trick word: the
• learn how to write and identify the letters (and sounds) of a, g (we specifically practice the "hard" g sound)
• practice identifying rhyming words
• practice ABC order
• discriminate between the vowel (learned to date) sounds
• identify the beginning sounds in words
• "write" a story about an apple
• add more letters while labeling their stories/pictures
• retell a story
• continue to learn comprehension skills while gaining background knowledge that will be essential for successful reading during Wit and Wisdom- our new book will be:                                   
  
  
  

Math-

• act out and use manipulatives to show a number story with numbers 0-5 (both addition and subtraction)
• practice number writing
• sequence numbers 0-10
• practice more/less, bigger/smaller

Social Emotional-

• participate in Second Step lesson #6 about feelings and being able to recognize how others are feeling. This begins our unit about empathy and feelings. 

Science-

• continue to understand how we use our 5 senses to learn about our world!

Here are some pictures from last week!

CAMPING!

CREATION STATION:

A HUGE thank you to our first Mystery Reader: Jenna Marion!

Making "Cool Cat" Hats:

We read the book Van Gogh's Cats and looked carefully at the colors he used in his paintings and then made our own cats inspired by his work:

Practicing Fine Motor Skills By Cutting Crazy Hair!

LANGUAGE ARTS: Cookie Monster loves cookies with pictures of things that begin with /c/, deciding if the toy begins with the /c/ sound, labeling the parts of a cow, spotting and dotting certain letters, practicing ABC order w/dot to dot, practicing our trick words and writing about what their cats likes 

We talked about the word COOPERATION
this week- these two were perfect examples!