Week of September 2

  

Our Resources for the week are on: Tuesday-Art and Thursday- Music. Also, we'd love if everyone can show their School Spirit by wearing a Sports Shirt on Friday. (Above are the shirts we will probably wear. :) Seminoles for Mrs. Pitts and Bucs for me! ) Kian will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class, so no need to send a snack in with your child. (We still have lots of available dates for Fun Friday Snacks. Check the dates on the left side of the blog, then send us an email with the date you'd like to sign up for. ) Also, if you returned a filled out Flu Mist paper, your child will be receiving the Flu Mist on Friday.

MATH

We will continue our Calendar routine and practicing writing numbers 0-10. Then we will be comparing Math Tools- discussing what attributes are the same and what attributes are different. (We are starting simple by comparing buttons and then we will compare the different Math Tools to each other.) Practice having your child compare objects at home. Ask them, "What attributes are the same about these two items?" (Responses could include they both have curved sides, flat sides, the number of sides, etc) Then we will introduce the Math Journals and the routine that we will follow when using them. :)

I tried finding a video that discusses attributes of shapes... but I didn't have any luck with Youtube. So here is a video that reviews all the different shapes. :)

ELA

(English Language Arts~ Reading and Writing)

The letters we are focusing on our Tt, Pp, Cc, Rr, Nn and the words are color words again- blue, purple, white and brown. We will read the Big Book I Am Six by Ann Morris and Mac the Cat by Nadine Bernard Westcott. We will focus on answering/ asking questions about the stories and retelling the stories. We will also focus on tracking the words in a big book while we read/listen to the story. (This is making a 1-1 connection with the words.) Then we will end by making an entry in our ELA Journals. We will focus on adding more details to our pictures (details on the faces, NO stick figures- arms, legs hands, feet) and then writing a story to match the picture. (At the current time "writing" may consist of letters, scribbles or any sight words they may know. All of this is acceptable right now.)
I wasn't able to find a Youtube video about either book. So I took pictures of the book Mac the Cat and I put the pictures into a Smilebox slideshow. :) Enjoy!!

SCIENCE

We will continue to discuss the Five Senses and the different ways to describe the texture of things we touch- rough, smooth, hard, soft, light, heavy, fuzzy, etc. We will practice closing our eyes and only allowing our fingers to describe the object we touch. Then we will introduce the Science Journals and the routine to follow when we use them. Practice having your child describe objects to you with their eyes closed. Make sure to get them to use the different vocabulary. :)

Here is the touch video again and then a sneak peak video for Friday and next week's lesson. :)