Sipping once, sipping twice, soup week was so warm and nice!
Some favorite stories from this week: Chicken soup with Rice, Growing
Vegetable Soup and Martha Blah, Blah, Blah. Look for them next time you are
at the library!
We continue on our journey to become great readers who have fun when we
read! I hope you are taking the opportunity to listen to your child read all
the small paper books they bring home. They are all doing a wonderful job
and I am so pleased with the progress I am seeing! Last week each child
brought home two books at their just right level. You may have noticed some
skill sheets came home that went along with their book, these are tools that
I use to help make sure the children are getting meaning from the printed
words they are saying, and not just getting good at saying words. Today,
they will bring home a soup book that they created. We made a page for each
different flavor that we tried… it would seem that by far chicken noodle was
the favorite soup with alphabet vegetable not far behind. Tomato was a
winner with about half the students, especially when paired with “Cheez It”
crackers! Students made a page entitled My Favorite Soup: where some
created delicious soups like rainbow soup while others decided to stick with
traditional flavors : )
In math we have started a new chapter where we are working on Time concepts
and Money. We practice reading calendars and understanding the idea of month
vs. day. Also, we are sorting coins to become able to identify the penny,
nickel and dime as well as what each is worth.
Every child needs to be able to recite their address including city, state
and zip code. We will work on that this week.
We are nearing the 100th day of school! It is this Thursday! Your child
will need to bring a collection of 100 things to school. We will use the
collection for some of our lessons on Thursday, so have fun counting! Friday
is also a special day! It is 101 Dalmatian Day! Children are allowed to
bring a stuffed dog to school and are asked to dress in black and white…
you’ll never guess who I may be dressed like : ) tee-hee! Have a great week!
