Friday Facts...

Happy Friday!  It has been another great week at school!  We have been learning so many new skills and still working hard at learning everyone’s name.  It was a great crazy hair/hat day for all!  We had so much fun.  We are trying to reach our next fundraising goal in order to have an all school PJ day!

Here’s our Friday 5 for this week in class:

1.  During our OG time, we continue to introduce a letter a day.  This week’s letters were: u, m, r, c, and g.  We talked about how the letter g is a “rule breaker” because when you make that letter, it breaks the rule and goes below the line that we are writing on.  I also “bumped” up the skills for the kids. We are doing such a great job with working with letters that I have introduced what we call finger spelling.  This is where we take the letters we have learned about and make them into words.  We use our fingers to help us spell these words.  Next week, we will work with five more letters and start working on recognizing the sight words “a” and “I”.

2.  We wrapped up Chapter 3 in Social Studies by talking about how to make good choices at school.  We also talked about rules at school and home.  We listed several different rules that we would find at home and at school. 

3.  We started writing block in class and talked about the different kinds of writing we might see as we are all learning.  Everyone was encouraged to try to write in their own way about what they like to do outside.

4.  During our math block, we have been working with pattern blocks, sorting buttons, practicing recognizing and making shapes, and practicing recognizing and counting numbers.

5.  We started our Daily 5 stations in the classroom on Friday.  This is where we work on our language arts skills.  Everyone did a great job learning how the many different stations work.  This is something that we will be doing each day in the classroom.

I hope everyone has a great three day weekend!