October 31

We have been working on making text to self and text to text connections in Reader's Workshop.  Ask your child about connections!

Our sight words now include I, see, a, the, we, and like.  Each week, we practice making, reading, and using our sight words.  You can help at home by having your child practice reading and spelling our words (and others if they are ready) and by finding our sight words in books or on labels.

In phonics we continue to practice letter formation, rhyming, counting syllables, and listening skills.

We have been practicing writing simple sentences.  We are talking about leaving spaces between words and putting a period at the end of a sentence.  Our class has been excited about finding other types of punctuation during shared reading time.

In math, we continue to practice skills such as number recognition, counting, patterns, sorting, and graphing.  Ask your child about math centers and our math journal.

In science, we have been learning about owls, pumpkins, spiders, and bats.  This week, the class visited Mrs. Shogren's room for some fun science activities!  

Here are a few pictures from the last week:

This was a labeling activity that we did during writing time.  We learned what labeling is and practiced on Logan.  Then, we tried labeling a picture in our journal!

Halloween Costumes!!

In Social Studies, we have been learning about community helpers and businesses.  We have also been talking about maps.  This is a map that we made of Edgerton.  Later in the week, we added our houses and then worked together in groups to make local businesses.  

Some of our business groups working together-  We made Piggly Wiggly, the Dollar General, the police station, the bank, and Culver's.