Week 5

What we have been up to...

Important Read Alouds:
Let's Go Visiting by Sue Williams helped students make text to text connections and discuss the similarities and differences between this story and last weeks book, I Went Walking. Knuffle Bunny Free, by Mo Willams, also provided us with an opportunity compare.  Sequencing story events will help students gradually learn to give a comprehensive retelling of progressively more complex texts. We spent time sequencing events and animals from The Scarecrow's Hat, by Ken Brown .

Phonemic Awareness: 
Farm animal rhyming words and name alliteration continued from last week.

Fundations: 
t, b, n, m, i, & u, formation, identification and initial sound isolation

Poetry/Songs: 
On the Farm, What Color, and YELLOW

Math: Unit 2
We completed unit 2, Comparing Numbers to Five. 
Students mastered the concept of more and fewer. However, it continues to be difficult for students to identify how many more or fewer when looking at bar graph's or number lines. We will keep practicing in class. You can help by counting up and back from at least ten. Also, continue to use the vocabulary: more, fewer, same as, and different. 

We played a fun card game where students flipped four number cards and placed the numbers in sequential order. You can do this at home with an ordinary deck of cards. Just remember to remove all picture cards from the deck before you get started. 

Writing:
Students independently labeled a cross sections diagram of a pumpkin. They learned how to make a list to keep track or remember new learning.
In addition, we are learning to read like writers and notice the purpose of various kinds of writing. We are learning to take ideas from story telling journals and turn them into stories. We are in the process of charting, "Why Writer's Write". 

Thank you to the AMAZING chaperones who joined us on Thursday. 
Enjoy these moments!

Guiding Questions for parents:

How do you make a diagram?

What does the inside of fruit look like?

How was the book, I Went Walking, different than Let's Go Visiting? 

Which Knuffle Bunny story did you like better? Why?

Why are farms and orchards important?

What else can you do with apples and pumpkins besides pick them? 

A look ahead...
No School on Columbus Day, Monday, October 12th
Field Trip to the Franklin Park Zoo,Wednesday, October 28th (a notice will be sent home on Tuesday)
Halloween Celebration, Friday, October 30th (volunteers needed, more information next week)