Hello Families!
We had a great, full week last week. The students enjoyed the "touch a truck" event and we had our first Mystery Reader! 
Thank you to Mr. Jacobson for
being our Mystery Reader!
We filled our heart jar!! The students voted to have a "movie and popcorn" celebration. I will show a Wild Kratts episode about foxes and how they use their senses. I will supply popcorn (pre-packaged movie popcorn from Trader Joe's- it is gluten and nut free). If you prefer your child not to have the popcorn, please email and let me know:)
The Fun Run on October 15th 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 UPDATE:
Use this code to register your child and they will get a free t shirt!
This week:
- Tuesday- don't forget library books!
- Thursday- FUN RUN! Our class will be running at 11:00 (remember to wear sneakers!)
- Friday- High Five Friday! Children greet Shakey our mascot and some police officers with a high 5 when arriving at school!
- movie and popcorn celebration!
This week, the students will:
Language Arts-
- review all the trick words: the, can, I, like
- 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 #7 about feelings and being able to recognize how others are feeling. This unit is 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!
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| Social Thinking lesson with Ms. Grebb |
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| Cookie Monster only likes cookies with pictures of things that begin with /c/. |
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| putting the letters in ABC order on the octopus |
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| practicing trick words from the Cat and the Hat hat! |
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| spin and record the trick words |
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| working in our W&W journal and recording examples of our 5 senses |
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| exploring a math center |
CREATION STATION!
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| check out this "Cool Cat"! Our new song of the week is called "Cool Cat" |
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| making Cool Cat crowns! |
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| playdough fun! |
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| cutting some crazy hair and practicing our scissor skills |
