A Week In Review: November 14th

This past week was full of new learning in Room 17.  I also wanted to give you a few reminders about upcoming events:

• $10 Holiday Party Money is due ASAP
• Field Trip permission slips and $8 is due on Wednesday
• Yuck Soup Items are due tomorrow morning.  Please send in an item for our soup. We have lots of noodles already.  We could use the following items: crackers, cut up carrot, cut up tomato, cut up celery, cut up onion, and veggie that would be good in soup.  I will be bringing in the broth for our soup.
• Thanksgiving Celebration:  On Wednesday afternoon, we will be having a little celebration with our Yuck Soup, Bread, and class made butter.   

HOLIDAY SHOP:  A letter went home with your child last week regarding the Holiday Shop.  This is a time for your children to purchase items for their loved ones all by themselves.  They will have a personal shopper with them to help them make decisions, but for the most part they get to do it all by themselves.  I know my girls feel so proud when they give me the gifts that they picked out for me.  Your child does not have to participate - it is completely voluntary.   The children are only allowed to purchase gifts for other people, they are not allowed to buy gifts for themselves at the holiday shop.

Reading and Writing

This week we had a reading celebration.  We completed our first reading unit and wanted to celebrate with the BIG KIDS.  4th Graders from Mrs. Knapp's class came over to visit and celebrate with us.  We shared with them all of the reading strategies that we have learned.  The 4th Graders had a little bit of time to read our favorite stories to us too.

In Writing, we started writing our very own books.  We worked on drawing a story over multiple pages.  Once we had our story written with pictures, we went back and tried to label the things in our pictures.

 Math

In math we have been continuing to work with counting numbers and one to one matching.  We have been learning many games that require us to roll a dice, identify the number, and then count out the named amount of objects.  This is really tricky.  We are being really careful so that we don't double count any of the objects.  Next week we are going to be learning about shapes and many ways to represent a number.

Gratitude Steel Drum Band

As a part of our Diversity Week Celebration, the Gratitude Steel Drum Band came to play music for us from all over the world.  This was such a fun time.  Thank you to the PTA for making it possible.

Thankful for Books

Thank you for returning the Feathers for our turkey.  He sure looks good with all of the fancy feathers the children have added!

NEW POPCORN WORDS will go home next week.  There will only be 3 words - 2 new ones and 1 review word.  Thank you for helping your child recognize these words when they see them in books.  We are continuing to work on the following words this week:

• is
• in
• at
• are
• like 
• you