From Ms Johnsen:

From Ms Johnsen:

 

...We have had a wonderful first 13 days of school. Today the compliment  chain reached the floor! Tomorrow we will be voting on what special treat we want for our reward!  I will keep you posted!

This class is a wonderful group of students!  They can get silly or chatty at times but they can also get settled and be good listeners!

This week we have a wonderful addition in Kindergarten. Mrs. Vera Lynch joined the kindergarten classrooms for 5 hours a day! She has aided in Kindergarten before and moves easily between both classrooms. She is helping support students by working along side the teachers during a lesson and helps the few who need support when most of the class has finished. She is able to work with small groups or one on one for review or extra practice when needed. She is a wonderful extra set of hands in our busy rooms. By the end of October we will also being getting a High School helper each day for 1 hour and 20 minutes. These are students who are planning to pursue a teaching career in college. I have had a high school helper for the last 2 years.They have been a wonderful addition to my classroom, and the children benefit from additional adult support.

In the first 3 weeks we have been working on getting into a routine with our schedule. In Literacy we are working on using our letter sounds to stretch our words and write what we hear. All the students are willing to at least try and write something. We have a large range of skill ability in the room. Those that know all their letters and sounds are being encouraged to write more and to work independently as much as possible. The students who only have a few are getting support when needed.  Miss Meeks and myself have been pointing out all the wonderful beginner writers we have in the room. Even the beginning letter is celebrated!

We have been listening to a lot of stories and doing some comparison of different versions of the Gingerbread Man. On Friday the Gingerbread Man had left the back page of our book so we went looking for him around the school. The children had to figure out different clues and we moved around the building looking for him. We ended back in our classroom where we found some gingerbread play dough and a little bag of teddy bear cookies for each student.  The play dough was home-made. Not really meant to be eaten since they played with it but it is all edible. (very salty though!)

In Math we have been working on writing the numbers from 0-10 and learning all the different ways we can represent a number. We started our math books. As we work through the math curriculum we will be doing some paper and pencil activities and lots of hands on  manipulative activities.  As we work with the math book there will be homework pages as well as stapled packets of a mix of completed pages and pages that can be used as extra practice at home.

I hope you are enjoying the treasure story questions as a time to discuss stories with your child.

This week our Treasure story is The Rainbow Fish. Look for their canister on Friday.

Please read with your child daily!

...Have a good night.