Newsletter for the Week of October 29 - November 2, 2012

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November 2012 Menu

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November 2012 Calendar

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Unit 2, Week 2 - Armadillo's Orange

     This week our focus story will be Armadillo's Orange by Jim Arnosky.  This story teaches us the value of neighbors through the adventures of an endearing armadillo.  He insists on using a fallen orange to mark the entrance to his burrow and ignores the other animals he meets out and about each day.  When a sudden gust of wind, moves his landmark orange and he cannot find his way home, the armadillo realizes the value of having neighbors and friends.
      Our Target Skill of the week will be identifying the setting of a story.  We will also practice making predictions and placing events in sequential order.  We will be working to identify, form, and match the letter "Ss" to its sound--/s/. 

Amazing Words: armadillo, burrow, tortoise, rattlesnake, grubs, insects

High-Frequency Words:  We will continue to practice the Popcorn Words "have" and "is", as well as review the words "I", "am", "the", "little", "to", and "a".  Please continue to practice these words at home as well! 

Letter: Ss


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Newsletter for the Week of October 22 - 26, 2012

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Unit 2, Week 1 - Life in an Ocean

     This week our focus story will be Life in an Ocean by Carol K. Lindeen.  With this book, we will explore life as it exists in the ocean habitat. We will learn about the animals that call this habitat their home and how they adapt to their surroundings for survival. 
     Our Target Skill this week will be comparing and contrasting.   The skill of classifying and categorizing information will continue to be revisited and assessed this week as well.  We will be working to identify, form, and match the letter "Aa" to its sound--/a/.  We will spend two weeks on the letter "Aa" this year, as all of the vowels can make two different sounds (short and long vowel sounds).  This week we will be focusing on the short "a" sound, as can be heard at the beginning of words such as "alligator", "ant", and "astronaut". 

Amazing Words:  ocean, world, crab, shell, fish, seaweed

High-Frequency Words:  have, is  (Please continue to review "I", "am", "the", "little", "to", and "a".)

Letter:  Aa


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Pumpkins!

After our trip to Jackson's Apple Orchard and Pumpkin Patch on Thursday, we had more fun with pumpkins on Friday.  We did a pumpkin sequencing activity, placing the events in the life cycle of a pumpkin in order, from seed to ripe orange pumpkin.  We also used the class pumpkin given to us by Jackson's Orchard to perform a Pumpkin Report--we drew and described our pumpkin, measured the height and width of our pumpkin, and estimated the number of seeds inside before cutting it open, cleaning it out, and counting the seeds to check against our estimation.  

Pumpkin Sequencing Example #1

Pumpkin Sequencing Example #2

Inside of our pumpkin

Pumpkin Report Example #1

Pumpkin Report Example #2

Field Trip Slideshow

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Ties for "Tt"!

On the Thursday before Fall Break, we wore ties to celebrate "Tt" Week! Here is a picture of our participants!

Newsletter for the Week of October 8 - 12, 2012

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Unit 1, Week 6 - Dig Dig Digging

     This week our focus story will be Dig Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe.  This book will introduce us to 11 different vehicles that perform jobs from construction to rescue, using a variety of fun adjectives and verbs along the way. 
     Our Target Skill this week will be classifying and categorizing. We will also continue to practice identifying the setting in a story.  We will be working to identify, form, and match the letter "Tt" to it's sound--/t/. 

Amazing Words: scooping, swooshing, squelching, gobbling, spinning, and rumbling

High-Frequency Words:  We will continue to work with "to" and "a" for another week.  Also, please continue to review the following words: I, am, the, little. 

Letter: Tt


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Mustaches and "Moosetache" to end Mm Week

We wore mustaches and read Moosetache by Margie Palatini today to wrap up our Mm Week.  The kiddos definitely enjoyed it!  

Nevaeh was home sick on Friday, but participated all the same!