Tuesday, November 6

We have been busy over the last week learning about Lois Ehlert, community helpers, and new sight words.  We have been practicing all kinds of different patterns in math and have been reading, reading, reading!  Last week we visited several reading and writing centers throughout the week.  There are some pictures of some of the centers below! 

This week, we started talking about ASKING QUESTIONS during reader's workshop.  We talked about the difference between asking and telling and came up with several question words such as who, why, do, what, could, and several more!

Tomorrow we will be starting our centers for the week.  Many will be the same such as reading books from the book bin drawers, reading charts and poems, practicing sight words with play dough and magnetic letters and listening to stories on CD.  We will add a few new centers for the week as well.  Watch for the center sheet to come home on Friday and ask your child about the centers he/she visited. 

Reminders:
We will be opening the book fair next week.  Our class will visit on Wednesday morning.  We will make a "wish list" to take home.  Then if you choose, you can visit the book fair with your child before or after your conference or you can send in money and I will send your child to the book fair to pick up the books that you choose.

Please continue to work on your turkeys at home as well as the family questionnaire.  Return these and a few FAMILY PICTURES by next Monday for our project!  We have received several turkeys with great disguises!!! 

Remember that Parent/Teacher conferences will be held next week with an early release day for students on Tuesday.  If you don't remember when your scheduled conference is, please let me know!

Last week we had a hard time with clean up.  We ended up missing half of our library time on Friday and weren't able to check out new books!  This week we have had a more limited amount of centers open and clean up has been going much better.  Having your child help clean up and be responsible for his/her belongings at home is helpful to us here at school, too!

Here are a few pictures from this week:

The play dough center

Writing word on the writing board

A Lois Ehlert activity: painting with feathers



Another Lois Ehlert activity: pumpkins, owls and leaves using different craft materials

More Lois Ehlert activities: Leaf Projects



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