Just wanted to fill you in on what we are learning over the next few weeks. This week we are starting our apples unit. We will continue this unit over the next 2 weeks. Among the many things we’ll learn, we’ll talk about how apples grow, how apple trees change over the seasons and the parts of an apple. Please remember to send an apple if you haven't done so yet.
We will also add the words “yellow”, “the” and “at” on the word wall so we’ll be constructing a lot of sentences with these words. Some of my centers this week include: sequencing (identifying the words first, next, then, last), cutting out words and gluing them onto sentence strips in the correct order, venn diagram and web about Fall, matching upper and lower case letters, continuing practice on gripping our pencils the right way, and several more! Hopefully your children are finding it easier to tell you all about their day!
Guided Reading officially started today. Please check my post Guided Reading for lots of information. You'll find all your answers here. I'll have more for you during our conference time.
I am going to look over the schedule again and contact everyone regarding their conference time. I have had many requests and changes in the last few days. As soon as I consolidate all the changes I'll send you an e-mail or call regarding a date and time when we can meet. I will notify you by this Friday.
In Math, we will review everything we’ve learned and also practice some simple math addition sentences. We don’t typically focus on one skill in math like our thematic units. We introduce concepts and practice/reinforce them all year long! For example, we’ll never set sorting and patterning aside… rather, we’ll learn to build on these concepts throughout the year.
I am very excited about the field trip to the Arboretum. If you would like to attend, remember you MUST have a background check on file. Let me know if you have any questions about that. I think the kids are really going to enjoy this one!
Stay tuned for updates and pictures from our apple unit! Keep washing those hands!
Mrs. Dooley
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