Oct. 31-Nov. 4

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!  Thank you to Mrs. Hallissey and Mrs. Henderson for planning and running a fun fall party! 

Language Arts:  I forgot to mention last week the lesson and writing activity we did on adjectives.  We used adjectives to describe a pumpkin that I brought in to class.  The students looked at it and touched it and we wrote describing words on the pumpkin.  We recorded our ideas on a paper that went home.  This week we finished Jolly Phonics with the ar sound.  Our books went home for extra practice.  We will now concentrate on our sight words and phonemic awareness within words (ex:  words with same beginning sound or ending sound, words that rhyme, syllables, blending)  Our sight words this week were "you" and "on."  Our letter of the week was T.  We read The Teeny Tiny Woman and made our own teeny tiny books.  We read Mr. Tannen's Tie and made our own ties that show something special to us.  We read a non fiction book about turtles and wrote a fact that we remembered from the book.  To continue our celebration of fall, we read a scarecrow book and made wonderful scarecrows to decorate our bulletin board. 

Math:  The book Tally O'Mally helped us understand why and how tally marks are used and bundled.  We read a tall tale and wrote about things that are taller and tinier than us.  We played a game called Teen Partners to help us with the concept of teens...they are just a little more than ten.  We worked on the concept of less than, more than, and equal and their symbols.  We practiced our math extended responses by drawing our thinking and using key math words in our answers.

Social Studies:  We are reading more books about good social behavior such as The Bear Who Shared, The Boy Who Wouldn't Share and Pumpkin Soup.  Class discussions about making good choices and being a good friend will be a regular part of each day.

Notes:  There will be NO SCHOOL Thursday and Friday of next week.  I look forward to seeing everyone at conferences.  Have a great weekend!