Tablet Teaching

We LOVE our new ELMO tablet!  We had a great time today passing it around and taking turns answering questions with it.  It gives the user the ability to drag and drop pictures, make notes, highlight and even color items that appear on the screen.  We can't wait to share it with our friends!

FIELD TRIP INFO

We will be going to Children's Theatre to see Cinderella Monday morning and will leave the school at 8:30.  Please be on time!



Homework

The children are bringing home an extra homework assignment tonight that is not due until Fri.  They may have an alphabet matching sheet, a sound matching sheet or a small book to read.  Please help your child with his or her homework.  Is is designed to help with specific skills such as letter naming, sound identification and sight words.  I plan on sending home this type of homework once a week.  If it takes more than a couple of days to complete it please let me know and send it in as soon as possible.  We are working so hard at school and this is a way to continue to reinforce the skills we are learning.  Let me know of you have any questions.  Thanks for your help!!

Apple Day Glog

Our Apple Day Glog is ready to share!  Please click the link on the left of the page for cute pictures of our busy day Friday. 

Our applesauce was delicious today.  We all enjoyed it during snack this afternoon.  We had a great/ busy day.  Can't wait for tomorrow!

Apple Day

Apple Day was a blast!  We had a great time.  I hope to have pictures up by Monday.  Have a great weekend and enjoy your little "Appleseed"!

Centers City

We are busy this week getting accustomed to our center routine.  The class has been divided into five groups of four and rotate through three centers each day.  There are not many "paper/ pencil" centers.  Most of the centers involve some kind of manipulative.  We are using pictures of the class in two of the centers giving the children a chance to match names with faces.  They are working with color words, magnetic letters, beginning sounds and visiting the listening center.  We will continue these centers through next Tuesday and will begin similar centers next Wednesday.  The beauty of centers is that the children are able to reinforce new skills while working with a small group and with me.  It is a very important part of our day and really helps them mature and become more independent. 


Friday we will have our special apple centers for our Apple Day celebration.  Be sure to follow the link to check out last year's Apple Day Glog for a sneak peek of our upcoming Friday fun.

Alphabet Party!!

We had fun at our alphabet party today.  We have had a very busy day with all our activities.  We began the day coloring our nametag necklaces and then read an alphabet book on our big screen.  Later during our alphabet centers we "played" with our names.  We made our names out of playdoh, matched letter stickers to the letters on our names, built our names with alphabet Lego's, picked up tiny letters made of pasta with tweezers to make our names and matched clothespins with letters on them to our name cards.  During math we made a special snack with Scrabble Cheez-Its, Alphabits Cereal and gummy letters.  We sorted the letters and tried to make our names with the letters we had.  It was a lot of fun!  We ended the day eating our snacks and watching The Letter Factory.  We had a GREAT day!! 

 Nametag Necklaces

 Clothespin Names

 Alphabet Legos

 Letter Stickers

 We all have an "Aa" in our names.

 Pasta Names

 Seth spelled his name with Cheeze-Its.

Names with "Yy"



Next week, we will begin our Harcourt Storytown reading series.  Tuesday your child's folder will come home with a monthly homework calendar, a reading log and this nine weeks star words.  We are going to be working hard to become great readers and writers.  Please help your child with this by reading with them every night and completing the nightly homework.

Have a great long weekend!!

Wild Wednesday!

Whew!  We were busy and chatty today, but still managed to get a lot accomplished.  We are quickly reviewing the alphabet with our letter a day unit.  We are already to Ll and Mm!  Today we sorted jelly beans by color and then graphed them.  We also kissed our Kk's and put jewels on our Jj's.  We are having a good time learning whose name begins with which letter too.  We will end the week with Nn and Oo and will finish our review next Thursday.  This is all leading up to our Alphabet Party on Friday the 2nd.  More info and a wish list for the party will be coming home soon.