A Peek At Our Week!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Please see below for a few highlights from our classroom last week.

Announcements:

Quiet Time Towels

Due to the half day craziness Quiet Time towels were not sent home on Friday. Please expect them to come home at the end of this week. My apologies for the inconvenience!

Media/STEM Tomorrow!

Tomorrow (Monday) our class will visit the media/Stem lab. Please be sure your child returns their book from last week so that they are able to check out a new one. Thank you!

Curriculum Update:

Fundations

Last week in Fundations we learned about the letter t, b, and f. We also practiced the sight words "to" and "a". 

Math

In math we began the first unit in our new Bridges curriculum! For our whole group lesson we practiced counting, sorting, and classifying shoes. The children then moved onto work stations where they got to explore math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, geoboards, pattern blocks, and polydrons. 

During one of our whole group lessons we made a human graph and sorted ourselves by various shoe attributes including sneakers/not sneakers, laces/no laces, velcro/no velcro. 

Writer's Workshop

Last week in Writer's Workshop we practiced a very important pre-writing skill, drawing! We learned that shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles can be used to make pictures (and people too!). We also welcomed one of Boyden's amazing reading teachers, Mrs. Miles, into our classroom as she helped kick off this very exciting illustration unit. 

Reader's Workshop

In Reader's Workshop literacy and science came together last week as we read many poems and books about apples! We will continue our apple exploration this week as we also learn about Johnny Appleseed in preparation for his birthday on September 26th!

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to see us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K!