Thursday
Be sure to check your child's folder! There is LOTS of "good" stuff in there today. State Fair tickets, Six Flags Fright Fest coupon, book fair information and School Picture order forms!
BOOK FAIR: We will preview the book fair next Friday with our book buddies. Your child will make a "wish list" bring it home and you all can talk about what can/will be purchased (if anything)! The book fair will be open on Monday (Conference Day) and the rest of that week! On Wednesday, someone may come, take the child to the book fair during recess (10:20-10:50) and then eat lunch with us (10:50-11:20)! Instruction begins at 11:25 so we ask that your child be with us as soon as lunch is over!
We are continuing to make make memories and connect text to ourselves! There has been some great "memory" writing! It's so fun to see the progress only 6 weeks into school! I'm so proud of all the puppies in Pod 2!!!
We have introduced a few new word work activities. Last week we worked on word shapes. This week we introduced rainbow words and price a word!! When we make rainbow words we trace over our spelling words with colors from the rainbow! And price a word allows us to practice coin counting AND number sentence writing and solving!
Now that I am finished with assessments and our work stations are becoming more controlled...AND our guided reading library opens in October...I will be able to get on a more regular Guided Reading schedule! Thank you all for your patience! I can promise you that we are all doing LOTS AND LOTS of reading!
COINS...
we still need some practice recognizing the following coins by name and value ...
Next week we will be asking your child to count like coins as well as mixed coins! So identifying them by name and value is SUPER IMPORTANT! We have several games in our math tubs that are helping with this at school. But in order for it to become automatic PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
We are Getting FRUITY
We are using fruit to explore different properties...Texture, Density and Mass. Day one we explored texture with pineapples, apples, cantaloupes, lemons, limes, peaches, bananas, pears and oranges and grapefruits. Everyone was eager to describe their texture! We noticed that some had the same "bumpy" texture, some were smooth, one was rough and one was even POINTY...how would you describe them?
Well, today...it was time to see which fruits were going to sink and which ones were floaters! We thought we had it all figured out. Our HYPOTHESIS was "the heaviest ones are going to sink and the light ones would float!" OH MY GOODNESS...that darn cantaloupe and that itty bitty lime messed up that hypothesis BECAUSE the cantaloupe FLOATED and the lime SANK to the bottom...several friends wanted to change their prediction but we discussed being wrong is OKAY and that's what Scientist do...they TEST out hypothesis!!!
TOP DOG
Sam switch-a-rooed days today he brought in his show and tell and tomorrow he will have lunch with someone SPECIAL...
!!!HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING!!!
