Weekly Round-Up

Happy Halloween week!! It’s gonna be a fun-filled exciting week! We can’t wait to see our friends in costume on Wednesday! The Halloween dance will take place first thing in the morning in the gym. Parents are welcome to join! We dance until 9:30.

This past week we had lots of fun with the letter Aa. 

Everyone especially enjoyed the letter Aa song! 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUjkiUrGO4

Our sight word was and

We have also added the words a, at, as am to our word wall!

This week our letter focus is Tt our sight word is the.

Please remember to send your child with a sharing item on their PAT day. 

Last week we participated in a write / trace the room - Halloween edition activity. This activity is always a class fave! 

Lots of shape exploration took place this week. We read books, created shapes on geoboards, turned our own pumpkins into geoboards, looked for shapes in our classroom and created shape monsters of our own! At home or out and about in the community, have your child search for shapes. We have learned that everything around us is made out of shapes and our friends enjoy being shape detectives and spying these shapes! 

We continue to work with numbers too! Lots of number recognition, subitizing and counting games with a Halloween theme this week! 

We worked through another STEM activity this week. Students were invited to make a gate for the five little pumpkins using the limited materials available to them. Lots of problem solving, perseverance, innovation and communication was required for this task! 

We are loving the STEM challenges in Room 11! 

We also participated this week in the Great Big Crunch. We talked about the importance of healthy eating and what it does for our growing bodies! 

Finally, the week was full of different Halloween sensory activities too. These activities support our communication and turn taking skills! 

We look forward to the week ahead! 

Weekly Round-Up

We are always amazed with how much our friends accomplish in just one week! 

This week we started our PAT (Phonemic Awareness Time). The kiddies loved sharing their items with the class. We have posted a copy of the PAT schedule below in case anyone needs it. 

We did tons of letter S activities. Most of these activities were hands on: building the letter with loose parts, singing songs with the S sound, creating spooky S creatures (spiders, snakes, skeletons and scarecrows), tracing it in sand and building it with playdough. The same sort of activities were done with the sight word of the week: see.

Some other words added to our word wall that can be practiced at home too are : she and so.

This week the PAT letter and sound is Aa.

The sight word focus will be “and.”

We have started exploring 2D shapes. We are working on naming shapes and identifying the number of sides. Identifying these shapes in your environment is always fun. Go on a shape hunt in the house and see what sort of shapes you spy! 

We continue to have so much fun with numbers too! We can’t stress the importance of counting at home daily enough! Even small activities like counting the stairs as you climb up them is perfect! 

We also put out some new materials to support problem solving, group work and communication. These activities support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning and are always a hit with our friends! 

We are looking forward to an awesome week ahead! Lots of Halloween themed activities are planned!