A Peek At Our Week!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend as we said goodbye to summer and officially welcomed fall! Please enjoy a few highlights from our very busy classroom!

Announcements

Open House

A friendly reminder that this Tuesday, September 25th is Open House Night at Boyden School! All friends, family, and neighbors are invited to come take a peek at Room 202 and see what we have been learning about in our first few weeks together! Open House will be from 6:00-7:30pm. Families whose last names begin with A-L should plan to attend from 6:00 p.m. -6:45 p.m. and families whose last names begin with M-Z should plan to attend from 6:45 p.m - 7:30 p.m. I hope to see you there!

Curriculum Update

Literacy
Last week in Literacy we read the story Fit-It Duck by Jez Alborough and discussed the guiding question "How do people help each other?". We also learned about the letter T, B, and F in Fundations and continued to practice reading the words "I" and "am".

We also learned that syllables are the number of "beats" in a word. The class had a great time counting the number of syllables in their names!

Math

In math the students learned about 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes as we continued our unit on geometry! As a result of this week's lessons, we can now identify 2 dimensional shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and hexagons. We also learned about 3D shapes (or solids) like cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres.

The students above are working hard on their hexagons!

We also enjoyed a visit from Mrs. Kelly who is one of the new Elementary Math Consultants! Mrs. Kelly taught us how to represent numbers in different ways using counters. The class had a great time learning new ways to think about math as a result of Mrs. Kelly's visit. We can't wait for her to come back soon!

Reading Buddies!

Our week ended on a great note as we met our new Reading Buddies! Each Friday afternoon our class will be getting together with second graders from Mrs. Davis' room to enjoy some wonderful stories.

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek at our week! Please check back soon to see all that is new in Room 202!

Mrs. B :)