Monday, November 4, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Last Week of October: October 28, 2024 -November 1, 2024
Unit 2
Animals and Habitats
Read Aloud
We read and found out how a tadpole loses its fishy tail and gills
and becomes a frog in this colorful nonfiction.
Setting the purpose for the read.
Recording our thoughts on this chart.
vocabulary
Phonics
Letter Gg and its sound /g/.
Stations
Reviewing Nn /n/
Nn and Not Nn sort.
Science
Pumpkin Sink or Float?
Conducting the experiment.
Each child made a hypothesis.
13 predicted it would sink.
5 predicted it would float.
Recording what we observed.
Fall recess fun!
Quiet Time choice: Pumpkin Mindful coloring.
Proud of completing this awesome artwork!
Writing
Working on titling a story as a group.
Writing her title.
Developing his piece.
Centers
Discovery Table
Sink or Float?
Testing out other objects in the classroom and making predictions. Whoa!
Huh, a pencil floats!
Drawing and Writing
Recording her test.
Tuesday we were very lucky to spend some time with author Jerry Pallotta!
He certainly got the children excited about reading and his books!
Jerry Pallotta was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Medford and spent his summers on Peggotty Beach in Scituate. Jerry has six brothers and sisters. He wrote his first book in 1985, called,
The Ocean Alphabet.
Since then he has written nearly a hundred new books, including his newest series" "Who Would Win?"
He spoke to the children about creating the covers of his books and talks to them about choosing titles.
He taught about planning a page.
He spoke about editing.
He spoke about how his books have thirty two pages to plan!
He shared photos of his travels to learn more about what he is writing about including his trip to Antartica to get up close with penguins and other sea creatures.
He says "I have the best job in the world."
Phonics
Kk /k/
Phonics
Red words (is) and (was).
Stations
Reading
Partner reading his See The Pumpkin book.
She is being a good listener to his reading.
The children are asked to help each other as needed.
They are learning to give each other a little wait time to solve tricky words
and then if the partner wishes for guidance they say "can you help?"
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Dr. Record (our Superintendent) and Michelle McClellan (our Assistant Superintendent) visiting our classroom during centers. Dr. Record drew a frog with the children at the Drawing and Writing Center
and named it Popcorn.
Centers
The Discovery Table is now a pond!
Blocks
A fun read aloud with lots of good vocabulary to discuss!
Seeing pumpkin boats in our Let's Find out issue!
Scholastic News
Finding uppercase and lowercase letters in the pumpkin patch.
Completing his issue at the tables.
Completing a search.
Phonics
Letter Oo and its sound /o/.
Reading
Learning about concepts of print in an emergent reader called Fall Colors.
Stations
Working in her emergent reader See The Pumpkin.
Stations
Reading to a partner.
After reading to a peer the children are being encouraged to ask them to sign one of five spots.
Rereads are important in the early stages of reading.
The children are working on building reading stamina.
Stations
Super Hero Red Word Work: (the)
We closed out the month of October at calendar time.
It was a busy month!
A field trip, a birthday, a walking field trip, fire safety, bus safety, and picture day.
Our pattern: jack o'lantern, jack o'lantern, ghost, ghost (AABB).
Our weather graph for October showed many sunny days!
She is pinning up one last sunny day. We went off the graph!
A fun story that provided lots of movement!
Ask your child what motions that they remember.
Math
Count and Graph
2D shapes
Color Words
Recess fun!
Snack
It is very helpful if you pack one or two snacks separately from your child's lunch.
Too many snacks has proved to be difficult.
We typically have 15 minutes after the children come in from recess.
Thanks also for sending a small spill proof water bottle, it helps us use our time well!
Thank you for your support with this!
Thursday Mrs. Gayer (Leif's mom) joined us and we offered a craft hour.
They are working on Fall trees with construction paper and tissue paper.
The children traced their hand to make a tree trunk.
Adding some detail to her great Fall tree!
Thank you Mrs. Gayer for volunteering so the children could experience more than one craft!
I think they enjoyed this hour together!
Also offered was to create a pair of creepy underwear!
We read the story on Wednesday.
It was fun to display our Creepy Pairs of Underwear!
They were creative!
Thursday's Quiet Timer Choice: Cosmic Yoga
Frank the Frog
I love this story, many children did not know it and gave it two thumbs up!
The life cycle of a pumpkin.
They love having their name in a book! This one has a student's name in the title!
Centers
A special thank you to Mrs. Fisher (Dylan's mom) for volunteering to play
Fall Leaf Jenga with the children at Centers.
The children were thrilled to pick a prize when they pulled out a block with a leaf!
Careful!
Thank you to the Fisher Family for their generosity!
Centers
Science and Engineering
Tying technology based activities into the curriculum.
Learning about places in our school community, while also learning directions, reinforcing counting skills, and some basic coding skills by having fun and using Bee Bots.
Centers
Blocks
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything's Cottage!
Centers
Discovery Table
Pond
Centers
Drawing and Writing
We have a Saturday birthday this month.
Friday she went with Ms. Karnes to receive her birthday certificate and sticker.
The book she selected was a Jerry Pallotta book! Nice! 👍 😊
She picked out all her class treats and we will celebrate on Monday.
She will be the Leader of the Day!
Happy sixth birthday! 🎉
Phonics
Drawing items that begin with Gg, Kk, and Oo.
Phonics
Featured letters and sounds: Gg/g/, Kk /k/, and Oo /o/.
Featured red words: (is) and (was).
We have been reviewing and practicing the words previously taught: love, the, a, I, and see.
Stations
Completing his pumpkin book.
Practicing keeping one-to-one match in her Fall Colors book.
She is practicing one tap under each word.
The children are learn to read color words.
This book also feature two red words: the, is.
Stations
Reading
They are reading their book to each other.
They are working on partner work,
being a good listener when it is not their turn, and helping in a kind way with unknown words.
Writing
Creating a page in a birthday book.
She is writing the letters she hears for ice cream cake.
She just finished writing down the letters she hears for the word present (pst).
Read Aloud
What do animals need to survive?
vocabulary
Centers
Writing and Drawing
Centers
The Art Easel (exploring color).
Centers
Blocks
The Little Old Lady's Cottage!
Centers
Discovery Table
Frog habitat.
Centers
Art Table
Drawing a frog and painting his habitat with watercolors.
Completed at centers: a frog in its habitat!
It is fun to see the children start a picture and then go get it to plan for more the next day.
She drew the picture at Drawing and Writing, colored it
and then took it to the Art Table to paint the habitat, great job!
The PCPA is hosting a Scholastic News Book Fair in the Pond Cove Lobby next week.
Our class time is Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 9 am.
It would be helpful if you had a conversation with your child about your families wishes.
If the children know ahead of time your wishes, it can help to prevent many sad feelings.
Some examples:
Your child may purchase a book(s) of choice.
Your child will be browsing books during the class time.
Your child can spend the dollar amount on their electronic account.
Your child has an envelope with cash.
Your child is going with your family on Family Book Night,
so will be just browsing during our class time.
I am happy to support your wishes whatever they may be,
if helpful feel free to email what your child will be doing.
Next Week:
Wednesday: Scholastic Book Fair Visit for our class
Friday: No School for children (P/T Conferences)
I look forward to meeting with you!
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