Weekly Update

What's been going on?

Reading Buddies
Mrs. Kaswara's 3rd grade students are our reading buddies this year. Each student has a 3rd grade buddy. They visit us every Friday morning after the news and read with our class. All of the kids love this time and look forward to it each week.

 

Apple Feast
We had a BLAST at Apple Feast! It was such a fun morning and the kids really enjoyed it. They got to try so many different apple products and even help make some apple treats of their own. Thank you to everyone who sent in supplies or came in to help. Be sure to check out the slide show for pictures!

Letterland
I’m sure many of you have heard that last week our Kindergartners traveled to “Letterland” for the first time. Letterland is an imaginary and secret place where all the letters live. We have already met many Letterlanders and are so excited to meet more this week. “What exactly is Letterland?” Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling to 3-8 year olds. The Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into child-friendly pictograms and they all live in an imaginary place called Letterland. Simple stories about the Letterland characters explain the full range of dry phonics facts so that children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter sounds & shapes, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing.

Writer’s Workshop
We are beginning Writer’s Workshop this week. This is the framework for writing instruction and practice in the classroom. It allows students to determine the topics they will write about and work at their own writing stage and pace. The teacher serves as the facilitator and conducts daily mini lessons and conferencing with individuals and small groups. Students always love this time of day and I am excited to watch your child grow into a confident, developing writer!

What's new?

Listed below you will find our weekly curriculum update. This will help to guide and inform you on what Common Core objectives we are focusing on in the classroom. New concepts will always be in underlined.

Daily 5 Literacy:

Letterland: Fast tracking sounds:

a – Annie Apple	i – Impy Ink
b – Bouncy Ben	j – Jumping Jim
c – Clever Cat	k – Kicking King
d – Dippy Duck	l – Lucy Lamp Light
e – Eddy Elephant	m – Munching Mike
f – Firefighter Fred	n – Noisy Nick
g – Golden Girl	o – Oscar Orange
h – Harry Hat Man	p – Peter Puppy

Reading:

-organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page; one-to-one correspondence (pointing to each word as you read)
-reading different types of texts (poems, storybooks)
-making connections between text and illustrations

Word Work:

-recognizing and producing rhyming word review, identifying beginning sounds in words for each consonant

Sight Words (Target Words): I, see, like

Color Words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple

Writer’s Workshop: Identifying the tools we use during Writer’s Workshop, choosing topics, using drawings to convey our stories, telling about our stories in the order in which they occurred

Math: counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s, using one-to-one correspondence when counting objects, answering “how many” questions when counting and solving word problems, writing numbers 1-20, sorting and comparing numbers using graphs

IB Words and Meanings: respect

IB Unit: Food for Thought

Don't forget!

Saturday, October 13 - 10:00 - 2:00 Joyner Beautification Day
PTA is planning this day to spruce up our school grounds! Grab your tools and garden gloves and head on down to school!

 If you have not already done so, please click on the “Online Field Trip Payment” link to pay for our upcoming field trip, Scholastic magazine, and Kindergarten t-shirt. If you are unable to pay online, please send in a check or money order written out to Joyner Elementary. Thanks!!

Ganyard Hill Farm Field Trip - $15

Scholastic “Let’s Find Out” Magazine - $6
T-Shirt - $10