Weekly Facts

Happy Monday!  It has been a great start to the week!  I hope everyone got outside this weekend and enjoyed the weather.  We had a wonderful week last week in class.  We are starting our Thanksgiving unit.  The class is starting to learn about the Pilgrims and Native Americans and their way of life.  Today in class, we read a book about what it would be like to be a Pilgrim girl.  We learned about the style of clothing they wore, what types of chores a girl had to do, and what types of food was eaten back then.

We are carrying this topic over to our writing workshop time as well.  This week and last we have been focusing in on making sure our stories have details in them.  The class has really enjoyed being "bumped" up and challenged to write a story with at least two sentences, if not more.  We will continue to learn about the Pilgrims and Native Americans the rest of this week and next week as well.

Thank you so much for sending in the leadership binders.  The children were so proud of their many accomplishments!  Please continue to work with the sight words at home each night.  It is really starting to boost the confidence of everyone in the classroom and the kids are so proud of their hard work.  It is starting to show in their writing as well.  Thank you for your work on practicing the sight words each night to help us achieve our goals!

In the classroom I have been really starting to push the children to apply what we have learned in the school year so far.  Some great things you can do at home to work on this would be: practice blending unknown words together.  Start with three letter words (ham, top, pet, etc.) and then move on to more difficult words (stop, thin, chat, etc.); challenge your child to try and write in a journal and create stories with sentences using the words they know; read a book to you or read parts of a book to you; practice number writing and recognition skills; or see how high your child can count for you going forward and backwards.  These are all things that we have been doing in the classroom during these past few weeks of school.

We had a great Veteran's Day celebration at school last week!  The class did a great job in our convocation and hopefully enjoyed hearing from the veteran's that were able to visit and the songs the choir sang.

Hope you have a great week!