It's hard to believe that we have reached the end of September and that October will be here next week! We have finished most of our apple projects and will be starting our unit on mammals and other zoo animals soon in preparation for our field trip to the zoo on October 11th. More info about this trip will be going home the day before the trip. Please don’t forget to send the $4 to cover the cost of the trip this week. Mrs. Lewandowski, Mrs. Shaw, and Mrs. Rosolino will be the three chaperones joining us on this trip.
The students enjoyed seeing the book all of you helped make at the Back-to-School Night last week that included the drawings of your faces! I won’t say which children looked proud and which ones looked embarrassed. :) I do want to thank all of you for willingly participating in such a fun project for the students! The students also completed the same project and enjoyed guessing who their friends were on each page.
We have completed two other class books as well. One is called Dingle Dangle Deary Me and the other is Our Class Color Book, which contains different colored paintings by each student. The children are working on a new class book, Apples Up on Top and will be starting another one, Room 115 Likes Reading next week. All of our class books have started circulating to your homes. Make sure to have your child read the book with you before you return them the next day. Please try to return them the next day so someone else can bring them home to share!
The children finished their September writing journals and brought them home today. They wrote their words in their best guess spelling. We help them by saying the words with them and accept the letters they hear. You will be able to see tremendous growth as the year progresses. I would encourage you to keep their September journals so you can compare them to their journals at the end of the year! The students have finished their Brown Bear innovations and will bring them home as soon as they read them to the class. Make sure to save these and all the individual books they take home. These books are great for them to read and review often. The small alphabet books they have been working on in class can also be kept and reviewed often.
We have been practicing counting and writing numbers 0-5 in math this week. I will be sending home some number writing homework very soon. Students should complete them at home with pencils and then return them the next day. Hopefully the extra practice will help students learn their numbers better! They aren’t always easy for those 5 and 6 year old hands! I would also recommend students to practice letter and number formations in other ways too. They can write letters and numbers in sand, salt, rice, and even shaving cream!
We went to the library on Wednesday and will go this Wednesday and every Wednesday after that. Children can return their books whenever they are finished with them but they should be returned by Wednesday so they can borrow another book.
We will start having parent volunteers come into the classroom to help from 10:10-10:55am this week with our art projects. I sent a volunteer calendar home to parents who emailed that they were interested in helping. I will send an email towards the end of the month asking for volunteers for the month of November. You can respond with the days and how often you are interested in helping. Volunteers just need to check in at the office to get a badge and then you can come down to the classroom.
I hope you all have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS… It would be tremendously helpful if you could help your child practice putting on sweatshirts/jackets, turning them right-side out, and zipping them. We don’t mind helping them but would like them to become more independent as the year goes on. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated, especially now that the weather will be getting cooler. Thanks!
Also, the Scholastic Book Club Order is due this Thursday, October 4th. You can send in the order form with a check or place an order online if you would like.
We painted with apples!
Here are a few pictures from a movement break song we learned this week that had up skipping, sliding, walking, jumping, and tip-toeing all around the classroom!
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