Week 10

November is going quickly.
Although it was a short week, we were able to accomplish a lot. We learned about the Native American tradition of story telling.  Respecting others, respecting the earth and learning from mistakes are only a few of the wonderful lessons taught through Native tales. The students used puppets to retell last week's story, Turtle and Beaver Race by Joseph Burchac. It is clear that the students are becoming more confident sequencing the events in a story. They are also learning to identifying main characters by name and importance.  We read a new Native tale, How Chipmonk Got His Stripes, also by Joseph Burchac. Our focus was character traits, this helped us identify the lessons in the story. We also  learned two story elements, identifying characters and setting. The children practiced describing the setting, (time and place) illustrating the setting and building the setting with play dough.

Building the setting of How Chipmunk Got His Stripes

Using our new sight word board to help spell words

Describing the parts of a story that help identify the setting

Introducing Asiya

We also want to welcome our new friend Asiya to class. The kids of room 177 did a wondeful job making her feel welcome. We reviewed some extremely important social skills; include others, make eye contact, use your friends name, use a kind voice and friendly face.

Click on the link below to listen to our new Pow Wow song by Jack Hartman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGtg8CblWs

In Phonics: We added letters r and e to our list of letters we should be able to recognize, write and make a sound association with. We definately need a little more time to practice writing and recognizing our new letters, please be patient when you work at home. 

Phonological Awareness: We continued to isolate onset and rhyme.

Social Studies: Native American traditions, life then and now. 

Science: Classifying Animals and Animal Adaptation.

Math:Comparing numbers to ten. 

Using a number line to identify two more or two fewer. 

Next week we will be sending a new scholastic book order form home. Many parents use this opportunity to purchase holiday gifts. If you would like to keep your purchase, paper or on-line, a secret please just send me an email. I will keep the books out of sight and we can plan for a private pick up. 

Reminders:

Blue folders and clear book bags return daily

Green folders on Thursday

Library books Thursday

Yellow folders on Monday

Half day of school, Wednesday, November 25 th

No school Thursday and Friday,  November 26 & 27 th, Thanksgiving