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