Time is just flying!
Here's a peek into our week...
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| Showing off our needs and wants posters |
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LANGUAGE ARTS
We started the week on Monday learning about all our new centers. The students continue to impress us in how well they transition from center to center and the amount of hard work they are producing... WOW!
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| Writing sight words using bags filled with glitter gel! |
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| Writing thank you notes for our parent guest speakers |
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| Using a number grid to help us with our number sense |
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| Word wall spinner activity |
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| Sequencing chart |
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| Creating our poster with all the months |
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| Stamping short o words in play-dough |
Miss Fate led guided reading groups this week and students read the book I Went Walking by Sue Williams. They did a fun response activity to go along with the book.
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| Working on our I Went Walking activity |
Mrs. Wyllie's group worked on contractions and writing strong sentences. Let us show you what we learned:
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| Sentences! | | | |
Making 2 words into 1--- contraction magic!!
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| Contractions practice |
MATH
We covered a lot in math this week-- fact families, number story problems, & finding friends of 10 using the iPads (Friends with Ten app. and the Quick Images app., both great for math!)
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| Practicing fact families with triangles and dominoes |
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| Using dominoes to create fact families |
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| Using dominoes to create fact families |
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| Solving number stories using a picture and equation |
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| Our brand new number story collection book! |
This was the last week of our Myself, Others, and a Caring Community theme. In order to provide closure on the unit, we focused on understanding the difference between needs in our lives (i.e. food, shelter, clothing, etc.) and wants in our lives (i.e. toys, vacations, electronics, etc.) We also talked about what happens when there are people in our community around us that don't have their basic needs met. Each student had to make a list of 10 things they could do to help their community. It was humbling to see the solutions that the students came up with!
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| Needs or wants activity |
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| Ways to help our community |
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| How have you helped your community? |
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| Looking for needs/wants in magazines |
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| Things we need: food, shelter, clothing VS. things we want: cars, flowers, purses |
TNT- (Try New Things)
This week in TNT was very special for the children. In honor of it being the week of the Pet Blessing, we had several volunteers from the Pets for Life program come with several dogs to speak about dog safety. The students listened very well to the presentation and learned about the best and safest ways to interact with dogs. They also got the chance to pet and interact with each of the dogs. It was awesome!!
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| They were such good listeners! |
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| Learning a good safety pose to use if you encounter a violent dog |
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| Making friends :) |
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| Getting to know Wyatt the dog |
Pet Blessing
What an awesome experience for our St. Paul's community! The weather was beautiful and the smiles and pets were abounding :) Thanks for sharing them with us!
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| Family time! |
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| Love for animals |
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| Wouldn't it be cool to have a pet penguin?! |
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| Remembering past pets who have a special place in our hearts |
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| Loving our new pets! |
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| Say cheese! |
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| Having fun! |
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| Super girl! |
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| Stopping for quick picture during the parade! |
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| Man's best friend |
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| Buddies |
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| Love for cats! |
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| Praying for our pets |
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| Smiles all around! |
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| We love our pets so much! |
Hands on Science
Children performed an experiment to see how many water drops they could put on the surface of a penny. They were pretty amazed with the results!
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| How many drops will it hold? |
Computer Lab
Students got to complete a September calendar with different special events on starfall.com. They practiced typing skills with a fun cup stacking game on abcya.com.
Spelling Words: focus is short a words
*Regular Words: can, had, at, as, and, tap, hat, hand, bag, sat
*Challenge Words: bear, addends, friends, October
*Surprise the Teacher Word:???
Reminders:
*Sign up for a P/T Conference if you haven't already
*Please praise your child for all their hard work on the theme pages. They did an excellent job on them!
September 30th--Children can start to bring in a teddy bear for our new theme Bears!
October 2nd--Field Trip to the Folly Theater
October 4th--Buddy Run & Our First Spelling Test
October 10th--Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
October 11th--Scholastic Book Orders due online if you want to order any books.
**Love, Miss Fate & Mrs. Wyllie**
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