Weekly Update

What's been going on?

Spanish
On Friday our class got a new Spanish teacher, Ms. Kilburn. She will be the student’s Spanish teacher for the next 6 weeks. The children will now go to Spanish every day.

 What's new?

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, segmenting sounds, introducing syllables

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

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!

Thursday, October 18 - Ganyard Hill Farm Field Trip

Friday, October 19 - Early Release
Tuesday, October 30 - Creepy Crawly Day
Wednesday, October 31 - No School - Teacher Workday

What’s coming up?

Creepy Crawly Day

Tuesday, October 30th from 8:45 -10:30
Please check the Creepy Crawly sign-up document located under important classroom links. This is a super fun day for our children to participate in October activities. Thanks in advance for you help!