Pajama Day/ Polar Express

 Upcoming Event

·      Next Friday, December 15th we will be watching the movie, The Polar Express.  Your child can wear their pajamas to school on Friday (Dec 15^th)!  Please send your child in their regular shoes, we will be going outside for recess.  If you do not want your child to watch the movie, please let me know and I will make other arrangements.  We will also be eating a graham cracker and drinking hot chocolate just like the kids on the train.  After the movie we will get a special deliveryJ This is a great way to end year 2017J  See you after winter break.

Thank you for coming to Parent ConferenceJ  It was wonderful to meet you and sharing information about your child.    We have a wonderful classJ

Thank you for your support!

Mrs. Thompson

ABC Animal Research Project

ABC  Animal Research Project

Today I sent home a small storyboard to research about an animal.    Please work together as a family to find information about  your child's animal.  Add pictures, drawings, fun facts,  to the story board.  We will be using this information to write "Informative" stories.  Thanks so much for all your help:

Reading Update

·         In our reading groups we are learning letter names, letter sounds, blending words, segmenting words ( for example:  The sounds in cat are: C-A-T, and introducing sight (heart) words.  We have learned the words:  I,   like,  the, and see we so far. This week we will learn the word “to.” 

·       This week we will focus on the letter “Cc”.  We will become letter experts!  We will practice writing the letter using correct letter formation, brainstorm words that begin with the letter, make scrapbook pages for each letter and many more literacy based projects.

Writing
We are working on writing informative stories.  The students wrote about something they know about.  We will continue this writing unit until January.

Math

·      Number writing 1-10

·      We are working on developing number sense to 5, and different ways to represent the number 5, 6, and 7.

      Have a great 3 day Weekend!

Monday Update

Our field trip to Herrick’s Pumpkin Path is this Friday, October 20^th from 9:00-10:00.  Please have your child wear boots and coats, we will go rain or shine!

Make sure you mark your calendar for next Wednesday, October 25^th to attend Ridgeview Classroom Papa’s Night.  A portion of the proceeds from the families will go directly to our classroom.  Thank you so much for all your support selling the Papa pizza coupons.  Our class did an excellent job and we appreciate all your support!

Reading

·      We have been very busy in Room 2 the past couple of weeks.  We have started our small reading groups this week.  In our reading groups we are learning letter names, letter sounds, blending words, segmenting words ( for example:  The sounds in cat are: C-A-T, and introducing sight (heart) words.  We have learned the words: 
I   I   like   the   so far.  This week we will learn the word “and.” 

·      We finished our ABC Boot Camp and we are now focusing on one letter a week.  This week we will focus on the letter “Mm”.  We will become letter experts!  We will practice writing the letter using correct letter formation, brainstorm words that begin with the letter, make scrapbook pages for each letter and many more literacy based projects.

Writing

·      We practiced writing simple sentences using spaces between words and using a capital letters at the beginning of a sentence.

·      We practiced writing sentences using the high frequency words: 

I  like   the  _______.  

Math

·      Number writing 1-7

·      We are working on developing number sense to 5, and different ways to represent the number 5.

Thank you again for all your help with homework folders J