Week 3/4!

Week Three/Four

We are finally to the point where the kids know the routines that I have taught them! It’s a great feeling! They are doing so well. There is still a lot to learn but we are off to a great start!

Last week’s focus letter was M. This week we are working on the letter B and next week’s letter is S. We have learned the sight words A, I, see, the, this, and is. Please practice as much as you can at home! Next week, I am introducing the sight words me and our. We will also begin working with color words during writing time.

There has been a lot of focus on beginning sounds.  Soon I will be pulling reading groups to start working on sorting beginning sounds!This is such an important skill for developing readers to learn.  The children are also very excited about the new addition to our room…. A coconut tree! After reading the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, the coconut tree from the story showed up in our room! It is now a new classroom job to be the gardener and water the plant each day.

We also started our first Science unit.  To introduce the Five Senses we did an activity with popcorn! The children pretended to hear the popcorn popping, they smelled it,looked at, felt it and finally tasted it! We also made an anchor chart to show the senses that we used to learn about the popcorn.The kids loved the lesson...especially the part where we got to eat the popcorn. Each child has a Science journal. These will go home after we complete the unit.



In Math, we have been doing a great deal of counting, patterning and sorting activities. There are great activities in the math homework book that went home to help reinforce these skills! Please use these books! They are a wonderful resource! I'll beguin assessing the children on AB patterns, counting 1-15 and sorting next week. We have also been creating graphs and working with tens frames.  Another Math activity that we are doing is creating number posters.These posters help us see that numbers can be shown in many different ways.

Roll and Graph!





Check out next weeks NEW centers...



Letter Salad! The kids use tongs to find letters and write the letters that they find!



Counting Beads! The kids choose a pipe cleaner with a number on it. If the number is 10 then they count ten beads and put them on the pipe cleaner. It's also great for fine motor skills!

If your child’s mode of transportation changes please send me a note in the D.O.G binder. Notifying latchkey is not enough. Thank you!

I'll try to take more pictures of the kids next week! Keep checking the blog for updates!