Friday Facts!

Happy Friday!  We have had a jam packed week of learning around here.  We have successfully done two centers in a row (this is a hard transition time for the kids normally), we have completed our first week of daily 5 (reading stations), and we have started our first shared reading unit.  In this unit we are learning about what happens at school.  We came up with a great list of ideas and thoughts and made a chart to go along with our discussion.

Friday was"Super Hero Day" at CE!  We had such a great time celebrating this day and had fun acting like a super hero all day long.  We also talked about how a super hero is proactive and keeps the end in mind.  It tied in perfectly today!

A big focus in the classroom this week has been on letter formation.  We have learned some great songs to help us and we continue to practice, practice, practice.  At home, please encourage your child to only write their name with one capital letter and the rest lower case.  We are working on that as well as when to use a capital letter when writing at school.

Another first in the classroom this week has been our OG work.  We have been using picture cards to practice learning the letters of the alphabet the past couple of weeks.  This week, we have added in a response sheet.  This is one of the ways I track each child and their learning in the classroom.  After we have completed a couple of sheets, I will send them home to you to view as well.  Right now, we are working on writing letters only.  Next week, we will start to work on recognizing our first sight words, "a" and  "I".

We have finished off our last number identification lesson on Friday.  The children have learned about the numbers 0-9 and how to correctly form those numbers.  We have also tied in colors with this by having the children learn to recognize color words.  This is a great skill to continue to practice at home.

On Thursday, Mrs. Larkin, our speech pathologist came in to the classroom to do her speech and hearing screenings on the children.  Everyone did a great job!  If  any specific needs were identified, Mrs. Larkin will contact you.  We also had a special convocation on Thursday about Bullying.  The children learned to be "upstanders" and use positive comments and thinking each and every day!

Have a great weekend!