**The students had a productive week! They continue to respond to our Eagle Essential Guidelines and our in class behavior tips and are beginning to be very much a part of shaping their own behavior. The students continue to work on fostering positive peer relationships both in and out of our classroom.
** PICTURE DAY is TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1st. We will have our picture taken at 8:30 am. It is a gym day so don't forget to send gym shoes. If you are ordering pictures---order online or use the envelope sent in the Tuesday packet. We will have a class picture taken as well as each child's individual picture. Ms. Merritt has volunteered to help make sure we all look our best!
**Congratulations to GINA and REID--our GREEN TEAM reps for this year. They will attend bi monthly meetings and keep our class up to date with ideas and projects that make our school GREEN! Their first meeting will be Tuesday during lunch recess.
**Reminder--Don't forget to send in your confirmation for Parent/Teacher Conferences. Don't forget that on Thursday and Friday--October 10th and 11th, school is only in session in the morning. There is no afternoon session.
**ROUTE to READING SKILL GROUPS will begin on Wednesday, October 2nd. Your child will be bringing home information on the skill they will be working on and the teacher who is teaching it. Route to Reading Skill Groups meet 3 times a week for 40 minutes. The skill will be taught for 3 weeks and then assessed for mastery.
**Final Call for parent volunteers for Friday Station Day! Sign up if you can. I will post it on the blog as well as send a hard copy.
**NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 14th in observance of Columbus Day.
**We all did well on our first Friday in the PACERS Running/Walking Club. 3 laps around the school equals 1 mile. 6 students earned their first FOOT for their bracelet. Many students did 2 laps. Can't wait for next week!
**Our first D. E. A. R. (drop everything and read) was a hit. The whole school read for 8 minutes. Next month, we will increase by 8 more minutes.
**SEASONAL BABIES PROJECT--Please send in a baby picture of your child to school for our project. The photo will be displayed all year and will be returned to you at the end of the school year. The project will begin October 15th.
**Irving School Book Fair is October 7-10.
**Irving School Trivia Night Fundraiser info is on the Irving School website.
**Don't forget to sign and return the permission slip for ARTSONIA online students art work museum.
**In Friendship Club, Ms. Bell Bey taught a lesson on physical proximity and comfort level in daily student interaction.
** In Mr. Packer Math this week--Mr. Packer played getting to know you memory activity where he asked the students to think of word that starts with the same letter as their name and they had to help him remember every ones word. Pretty hysterical!!
This week:
It was all about a rather large bean that Gina brought from her garden. The students said it was the longest bean in Oak Park! Check it out on the side the blog. The students are beginning to notice small changes that signal the season of autumn. Some students noted that they had to wear jackets and long pants. Some are observing leaves on the ground and leaves changing color. They are also noticing less bugs around. Our Station Day activities included pattern block build and count, stamp your sight words, create your word wheels and read and decorate your PACER bracelet envelope. Next week--Apple Mania!
Reading/Social Studies: We have begun UNIT 1 FAMILIES in our Treasures Reading Series. The students built background knowledge on the types of families they knew about. They discussed animal families and human families. We all shared experiences about our families and the number of family members we have. The students listened to the Big Book story, "Whose Baby Is It?" The students made predictions about story content and noticed patterns in the text. They examined the cover, title page, front and back parts of the book and located where the page number was. They reviewed their previous sight words and added the new target words WE and THE. They spelled and wrote them and used them in their journals. Our target sound in isolation this week is Mm. The students worked with the sound toy box and sound cards and created a list of words that began with Mm. They also listened for Mm at the end of words. The students worked on additional vocabulary while listening to the fable, "The Lioness and the Ostrich." This vocabulary is referred to as ROBUST VOCABULARY. Ask your child about the words ANIMAL, PROTECT, TOGETHER and RESEMBLE. We defined each word and gave an example sentence. We used them frequently in our discussion. The students used the retelling cards to retell the story to a partner. The students worked on story words JOEY, PUP and CUB in the baby animal world. We read aloud our pre decodable story, "I Can, We Can." The students continue to work on tracking words and pictures in a sentence using their pointing finger. They also read the story, "We Can" to a partner. The students continue to work on Common Core Skills--recognizing FICTION and NONFICTION stories and examining the similarities and differences between a story and a poem. The students continue to work on parts of speech. They brainstormed of lists words that named people, animals and places (NOUNS) and looked for action words (VERBS) in their predecodable stories.
The students enjoyed their workstations this week. While I worked with small groups, the students also worked in rotating small groups creating an Mm mural, playing an upper and lowercase match game, creating a family sizes graph using paper dolls and sharing a story with a partner and retelling it. Our table managers are beginning to take more responsibility setting up, controlling noise level and helping to resolve any conflicts in the table group. The students continue to work in the Haggerty Blue Book.
Math: The students reviewed simple shape recognition. We also talked about how many corners and sides a shape has. The students also continued the exploration of pattern block shapes. We talked about hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus and skinny rhombus and the amount of sides and corners they have. The students worked on a variety counting activities using their 10 frames as well as counting objects, cubes, bears, blocks and matching one to one. We reviewed positional concepts over, under, between, next, in front of, above and below using movement activities. The students worked with their number cards with partners matching and sequencing numbers---0-5, 0-10, 0-15, 0-20. They also worked on activities surrounding the concept of greater then, less then.
Writing: The students continue to work on FROG JUMP CAPITALS---F-E-D-P-B-R. They are using their mini chalk boards, chalk and sponges. The small chalk and sponge pieces help to reinforce the tripod grasp. They apply what they have learned in their orange practice book. The students continue working with their journal prompts. I am recoding some the words about their pictures. Students are recoding the first sound they hear in a word. Some students are labeling a picture or two. Some students are working on sentence structure--naming and telling (noun-verb) (subject-action) Inventive or phonetic spelling is great. Spacing of words in a sentence is also being modeled and talked about.
Technology: The students used a variety of activities on the iPad to reinforce their curriculum. In reading small group, students used the apps ABC Touch, ABC Magic 3-sound matching (letter to picture and picture to picture), Fun Rhyming and Word Wizard to practice their sight vocabulary. In math small groups and with partners, students used the apps Intro to Math and Numbers to assist in number recognition, counting and patterns. We are currently working on a math project using the app Doodle Buddy.
Literature: "Whose Baby Am I?" "The Alphabet Adventure," "What Will the Fat Cat Sit On?" "Boom Chicka Rock," "The Colors of us," "The Pout Pout Fish in the Big Big Dark," "How Rocket Learned to Read," "Where in the Wild," "The Playground Problem," "How Do We Learn?" Poems--"Everybody Says," "Andre."
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