Tuesday November 2, 2010

The students were wonderful workers today!

We did a writing lesson from our Being a Writer Curriculum. Mrs. Abbey read the story, When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer. The students practiced "turn to your parter" to discuss parts of the story, and to talk about things they want to do when they are bigger. The students then drew pictures and wrote about one thing they want to do when they are bigger. Their writing has come so far over the past month! Students are working hard to write the beginning sounds of words, and many are starting to hear and write more than the initial sound in each word! Way to go! I will be sharing this writing sample with you at conferences, in addition to some of your child's writing samples from the beginning of the year. What a difference!

The students did the parachute in PE today!

We had a special station day today...students could choose to work on our current literacy stations, math buckets, or our ABC literacy stations from the beginning of the year. They loved the change! While students worked, Mrs. Abbey pulled students individually to assess skills for the report card.

Your child is bringing home 2 important things in their folders today:
(1) a small envelope of number cars. Attached to the envelope is a note which lets you know what numbers your child knows and which numbers to work on. Thank you so much for helping your child learn these numbers at home!
(2) a purple conference sheet. Please look over the date and time, fill out the bottom of the sheet, and send it back. (Your child earns a "bonus ticket" for returning it this week.) If you are unable to make the conference, please list a few alternate days or times that may work for you on the bottom of the purple sheet and I will try to reschedule. Thanks!

We have an apple tree outside our classroom door. This is a place for me to post items that our class could use. If you would like to purchase any of the items, we would greatly appreciate it! Currently, the items on the tree include: washable ink pads, magnifying glasses, tempera paint, stickers, popsicle sticks, small legos, hand-held pencil sharpeners, portable CD players with headphones, and any type of manipulatives (ex. 100+ seashells, 100+ buttons, 100+ plastic ants, etc.). Thank you so much for all of your help and support! We couldn't do it without awesome parents like you!