Classroom News

 	Classroom News
Activities we work on daily are:
   Calendar - month, day of the week, sequencing the days, counting by ones
   Weather - daily weather "forecast" and reading the sentence, graphing the
             weather and reading the graph using the words: most,least,  
	     equal, first, second, last etc.
   # count of days in school  - counting by ones
    ABC's - upper and lowercase recognition and sounds
    

Language Arts Activities:

•reading large and small books together and pointing to words, left to right
.counting syllables in words, and syllable sort
•beginning sounds activities
•handwriting C and c, and reviewing L and l
•illustrating the "C Cat" poem for our notebook
•"My Cc Words" for our notebook
•"C is for ..." class book, think of a word and illustrate the page
.Shake and Find Letters, draw a picture and write the word 
."Buddy Read" our notebook
.pocket chart activity ...put the sentences in order to our poems/books
.draw the beginning, middle and end of a story we listened to
.matching "bees' letters to beginning sounds pictures
. "Lightbulb Lab" - a center to draw and/or write our own ideas


Math Activities

•Counting Jar and journal
.Grab, Count and Compare
.# writing graph
•writing #6 in our number book 
.Roll and Record
.match the equal set
.patterning activities



Books we have read:

•Curly Caterpillar
•Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
.The Littlest Christmas tree
.The Snow Angel
.The Christmas Reindeer