Sept. 17-21

Language Arts:  Our sight word for the week was "is."  We finished Book 2 for Jolly Phonics.  Eric Carle is our new author study.  You will find a link to this blog that shows his website.  Many of our read alouds and responses were with Eric Carle books. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We wrote a response and we created story parts so we could retell the story at home. We read Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? and learned about the reading strategy "Look at the picture clues." We made our own mixed up animals after we read The Mixed Up Chameleon. We learned that Eric Carle likes to have a "gimmick" in all of his stories which tend to center around animals and nature. We made our own beautiful Eric Carle collages.
Work on Writing was the Daily Five practice this week. We learned how to write in our journals the whole time. Writing can look different depending on one's skills. Maybe we are writing through a picture. Maybe we can draw a picture and add a few sounds or a label. We might even be writing words and sentences! Our picture needs to tell the story with lots of detail. We will challenge ourselves and grow into writing words too.

Math: We played lots of fun games centered around patterns, counting, instant number recognition, and number recognition. 

Social Studies: Our Citizenship Cool Tool this week was I Can Problem Solve. this is a process for solving a problem. 1. Stop and Cool Off (we talked about different ways) 2. Talk and Listen (Use I Messages - I feel ___ when...) 3. Think of Ways to Solve the Problem 4. Choose the Idea You Like Best!

Science:  We practiced the scientific method with a delicious experiment about secondary colors!

Notes:  Thank you to Mrs. Swanson and Mrs. Ashish for organizing our Math Wall binders!  It was a big job and the K teachers are so thankful for all the volunteers who helped!  I will be organizing the other Helper Sign Ups and let you know when you are scheduled.

Don't forget to remind your child to bring back library books on Thursday morning so new books can be checked out.