What are we focusing on?

This is a small snap shot of our day in the classroom! It will be updated each month with our new focus for the month. The best way to find out about your child's day is to talk to your child! We are a hand's on - child centered classroom, so you will not see many worksheets come home. We learn through games, songs, poems, interactive activities, discussions, manipulatives, and we will use worksheets when they are meaningful with a purpose.


October

Reading

Your child is reading at grade level if they are reading: D

  • Use reading strategies to figure out unknown words

  • Word Families

  • Building stamina

  • Read at least 15 minutes a night



Language

  • short vowels

  • nouns

  • closed syllables

  • cvc words (consonant vowel consonant)


Writing

  • Getting ideas from our brain to paper

  • sentence writing

  • punctuation

  • personal narratives


Math

  • patterns

  • nickels and pennies

  • calendar

  • adding within 10 with dominos

  • reading and creating basic graphs


Science and Social Studies

  • seasons

  • animal adaptations

  • celebrating differences

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Extra

  • Whole Brain Teaching gestures

  • Morning Circle Community

  • ROAR

  • Halloween (very basic mostly consisting of pumpkins and apples)