Friday Fun Facts...

Happy Friday!  It has been pretty hit or miss these day for our outside recess time!  We have definitely made the best of the situation with our indoor recess games.  We got a lot of use out of our Makerspace tubs.  Check out some of the fun projects that kids worked on:

This week we continued to work in our social studies unit on Neighborhoods.  We have had a lot of great discussions about what types of buildings and places you can find in a neighborhood.

During our OG time, we are learning about the sounds -ank, -ink, -unk, and -onk.  We are about 3/4's of the way through our sight word list so keep practicing them at home. Our next big focus has been writing a sentence that is dictated to the class.  Each child tries to write a sentence daily with me and we are looking for our sight words to be spelled correctly, capital letters and punctuation, and we are looking for the chidlren to practice using the spelling patterns of words that we are learning during the week.  This is a great time of day when we try to be fluent writers and get a product on the page quickly. 

Our focus this week in writing has been creating a "preview page" for our how-to stories.  We have looked at several how-to books to see what information they included on their preview page.  We talked about how it gives a brief insight into their story.  We have also been sharing the children's how-to stories to help spark new ideas and to help make sure all of the steps have been included in their writing.

 I hope to get the leadership binders back to you next week as well.  I have sent off some new pages to be copied and I am waiting for them to be delivered before giving them back to you.  Mrs. Rohan will also be trading out the take home books, so please make sure those are in your child's backpack next week as well.

We wrapped up our unit on penguins this week and we are going to learn about the groundhog since Groundhog's day is coming up next week.  I hope you have a great weekend!