October 7-11th, 2024

                                     

Mrs. Joiner joined us Monday for our first technology lesson.

The children learned the basic features of their school iPad.

They also learned how to care for their iPad safely.

The children are learning about the camera feature.

They took a selfie and saved it as a background for their individual iPad.

This will help us locate each child's iPad faster when we need to use them.

Phonics Focus: The letter Nn and its sound /n/.

Identification, sound in isolation, and formation. 

Stations

Review: A, M, and S

Sound sort

Monday's Quiet Time Choice

Coloring bubble letters F is for fall and a picture.

Read Aloud

Learning about personal recounts.

Listening to a story where the author tells about what happened, an enjoyable story.

The children expressed how much they liked this one and made good connections 

to something in their life and other stories.

vocabulary

Writing

Preparing to write.

Practicing your story by telling it.

Think, Pair, Share

Telling their partner their true story.

Centers

Q-Tip Painting

a pumpkin

Centers

Blocks

Centers

Art Easel

Mixing colors and painting with them.

Math

Graph: How Old Are You?

We created a changing graph.

Throughout the school year the children will move their cupcake on the birthday graph

and we will discuss how the graph changed.

Practicing counting larger number with one-to-one match.

K Goal: count 20 objects accurately.

Recess

The weather has been fantastic!

Phonics Focus: The letter Ff and its sound /f/.

Identification, sound in isolation, and formation.

Stations

Sound review: /s/

Hidden pictures

Stations

Classmate picture memory.

The children are working on securing classmates names.

They are learning to play memory correctly and with purpose.

Other memory games will be coming throughout the year.

Stations

Pumpkin, pumpkin big and round

Pick a pumpkin and make its sound.

Sound practice.

Stations

Mm and Not Mm sort (review)

Stations

Picture Memory

Quiet Time Choice Tuesday

Dot-To-Dot

Sequencing numbers

Connect the dots 1-30 and color.

Practicing counting in sequence to 30.

Writing

K Goal: I can tell and draw a true story from my life.

At this time of year children are practicing many things in their writing.

They are sketching detailed illustrations, labeling with the letter sounds they can hear, 

writing words they know, and telling their stories with more detail.

Art Studio

watercolors

Centers

Art Table

Exploring adding different amounts of water to the watercolor paints.

Learning how to use water and paint to get different results on paper.

Being responsible by taking his own watercolor painting to the drying rack 

and leaving his spot and materials tidy at the Art Studio table for the next peer to use.

Math/Handwriting

Practicing the proper formation of single digit numerals on chalkboards.

When your child is practicing at home please encourage top to bottom formation.

wet try

small damp sponges are used

Feeling the formation of a zero from top to bottom with their fingers.

dry try 

small chalk is used

Being responsible to clean up her tools independently (sorting).

Phonics Focus: The letter Vv and its sound /v/.

Identification, sound in isolation, and formation.

Reading Station

Enjoying a book either privately or with a partner.

Stations

Letter picture/sound sort: Ff and Nn

Learning to work independently at stations.

Independent station work is typically review and practice while the teacher is working with other students.

Quiet Time Choice on Wednesday

Whiteboards and dry erase markers

Read Aloud

What does it mean to be a member of a community?

Your name is important.

Story vocabulary

We discussed how we can develop fairness, inclusitivity and friendship in our community.

Watercolor creations done at centers at the Art Studio.

Very proud of this structure.  When trying to find out what they built cooperatively together they shared it was a wall to protect them from the sand from the sand table.

Note the block pattern in the front.

Games

Connect Four

I see children bonding, taking turns and playing cooperatively. 😀

Centers

Art Easel

Creating shades of color and painting with those shades.

A read aloud on Friday.

In our Scholastic News Lets Find Out we learned about 

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed).

This tied in with our learning of names, nicknames.

We sorted and counted apples, and completed a graph.

We sang the Apples and Bananas Song changing vowels.

Stations

Chrysanthemum had 13 letters in her name.

We are learning how many letters in each of the children's names in our class community.  

We are practicing reading each other's names.  We counted the letters.

She is fancying the letters in her name.

These will be hung in our classroom.

Quiet Time choice on Thursday

 Cosmic Yoga: Arnold the Ant, apples.

Letter Aa has been studied.

When time allows at home have your child point out things that begin with both short and long Aa.

Remind your child that some letters make more than one sound. 

Centers

A quick picture before the blocks needed to be cleaned up for the long weekend.

The children who work in the block center work together to sort the blocks back 

to their proper places on the block shelf!  Most children 

have been very good about this important responsibility! ♥️

🍎 Have great long weekend! 🎃