This week during writing, we have focused on the learning target of "making our stories more interesting." What this means is adding more detail to the picture or the writing of the story. So many of the children are great at getting one thought (sentence) onto their page. Now, we are working on having each child add two or more sentences that go along with their picture. Another big struggle during writing time is using capital letters correctly in a sentence. We have learned all of the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet at this point in the school year, so I would encourage you to point out those capital/lower case mistakes when working on writing at home with your child. It is still fine to have a few (I never want to overwhelm a child with errors), just name a few and the more practice we have, the better this skill will become! :)
During math workshop this week, we took some time to focus the teen numbers again. We are slowly making progress with this skill. Keep practicing at home with writing and recognizing the teen numbers. The important thing to remember is to work on the numbers out of order to help with really learning the numbers instead of memorizing the numbers. On Thursday and Friday, we did a fun pumpkin activity where we really observed a pumpkin and even opened one up to look inside. We even investigated whether or not the pumpkin would sink or float. I think this was a favorite for everyone!
Next week we will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week at CE. This is a week where we celebrate being Drug Free. Here are the activities that are planned for next week:
Wednesday,
October 29th: Our theme for this year is “My future is
bright. No drugs in sight.” Wear neon/fluorescent colors on
Wednesday!
Thursday,
October 30th: “I am a jean-ius! I’m drug free.” Wear
jeans on Thursday!
Have a great weekend!
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