Reading:  This week in reading we continued to practice re-telling familiar stories to ourselves and our partners.  Our shared reading poem was about apples.  We put our poetry journals in our book boxes this week.  We also found our sight words as we were reading!  That was an exciting day!  Our official sight words are 

the

I

a

see

(my)- unofficial, but they keep finding it!

As we continue to work on routines, we are really practicing good partner reading behaviors.  Here are a few quick videos of what "good partner reading looks like." Notice there is one book between the students, eyes are on the book and they are taking turns talking. 

Writing: This week we learned how to write a TRUE STORY.  One of the best things to do before you write a true story is to practice telling it.  We spent time with our writing partners telling our true stories before getting started with our paper and pencil.  Your child can tell you that true stories have a who, where, and what!  We continue to practice stretching words out and writing the sounds we hear.  Enjoy these true stories.  One about an amazingly avoided injury.  And another, about an actual injury.  (Notice the blood on the knee!)

Math:  This week in math we practiced "one more" up to 10.  We will continue to practice that next week.  We played a count around the circle game- which was a big hit.  This helped us practice our counting on skills.  We are also practicing number writing-starting at the top!

Science: Last week we observed a tree like scientists.  This week we practiced labeling its parts.  We are going to learn what a tree needs this week and learn that we can sort trees and leaves just like we can sort things in math- by shape!

October 3:  Mrs. Parkinson will be at Inclusive Classroom Training, DePaul

October 4:  Walk to School Day

October 6: No school Institute day. 

October 9: No school Columbus day.
October 12: Morton Arboretum field trip. October 18: Egg Drop and Academic Fair to join sign up hereOctober 19th and 20th: Half days for parent teacher conferences. Sign up HERE if you have not already!October 31st: Halloween parade and party:  Please look for an email soon with details of how you can help!