Week of September 29

  

Our Resources for the week are: Monday- #1-18 MUSIC and #19-36 P.E., Tuesday- #1-18 P.E. and #19-36 COMPUTER LAB, Wednesday- MUSIC and Friday-#1-18 P.E. and #19-36 MEDIA . The Fun Friday activity is Stuffed Animal Day! (Make sure your child brings their stuffed animal  to school in their backpack. :) Please do not send a brand new stuffed animal to school, we will be bringing them outside during Recess.) Our class set of twins, Ryan and Emily, will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class.

Don't forget to send in your signed Permission Slip and Money ($12.50) for the Field Trip to Diamond D. Ranch. Also, Chaperones need to prepay $10.00. 
ALL MONEY needs to be in by Tuesday, October 7.

**Continue to have your child practice writing their first name. We need to see the first letter as an uppercase letter and the remaining letters lowercase. Once that is mastered, begin the same process for the last name.**

MATH

We will continue to practice counting and recording how many we have using ten frames. (The correct way to display items on the ten-frames is shown below.)  Plus we will play the game "Grab and Count." (Practice playing the game at home with your child. :) Allow them to grab one handful of objects and do a little shake, so no items are dangling out of their fingers. Then have them count the objects and record it on a sheet of paper.)

Continue to work with your child on counting groups and making groups at home, along with writing numbers 0-10. :) The Youtube video is a countdown song and the layout of the green bottles are similar to a ten frame.

Here are ten frames showing the numbers 1-9.

ELA

(English Language Arts~ Reading and Writing)

We will continue to practice letters and sounds using flash cards and singing phonics songs. The sight words are- five, me, no and go. We will read two books this week: A Party for Bob (from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series and A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban.  We will discuss birthday vocabulary related to each book (selfishness and generosity) and how we feel when we celebrate other peoples birthdays. We will identifying the different characters and multiple settings in the story. Plus we will be watch the Youtube video's of the book and practice retelling the story by including key details.

Practice retelling stories at home by using books you have read to your child before. Also, discuss the different CAP (Concepts About Print) items with your child using a book:

1) ask them to point to the front cover

2) ask them to point to the spine

3) ask them to point to the back cover
4) ask them what an illustrator does
5) ask them what an author does

Here are Youtube Videos for the book A Birthday for Frances.
 (I LOVE the characters squeaky little voices. :) Hope you all do too!!)

SCIENCE
We didn't get a chance to finish our Five Senses Discussions, so we will be finishing them up this week. :) We will discuss how scientist use their five senses to describe items to others. We will make a journal entry and play a describing game. :) (The students will have to describe their picture to their partner and allow their partner to guess what their picture is of. Pictures could be of animals, foods, or other small items.)

Practice playing this game at home with your child. :)

Below is an episode of Sid the Science Kid.

 (We love the show! It makes Science fun for kids. It episodes show Sid and his friends at their school. Then they flash over to real children learning and discussing Science. :) Hopefully you all enjoy Sid the Science Kid and check out other episodes of the show. Here is a link to check out more Sid the Science Kid.)