Students enjoying their apple smiles: Fuji Apples, peanut butter, and marshmallows- yummy!
I'll post more later...
Digital Elements From: Designer Digitals- School Days Kit and Shabby Pickle- Teacher's Pet
A lot has happened since the last time I posted!
DonorsChoose.org
I want to start by sharing that we had another DonorsChoose.org grant fully funded last week!! I am extremely happy for the opportunity our kind donors are giving our students. The title of this project is "For the LOVE of Reading." In a few days we will be receiving non-fiction and beloved classic books for our students to enjoy when they visit our classroom library. The collection includes books about animals, animal habitats, landforms and ecosystems, eyewitness nonfiction readers, as well as hardcover copies of beloved classics like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, Five Little Monkeys, and Where the Sidewalk Ends.
I have a second project posted and it is very close to being funded, we only need $55.00 to go!! Thank you Mrs. C in our classroom for your kind donation to our project. If you would like to donate to this project please email me and I'll send you the link, using the link will help us in two ways. First, it will help us get funded and secondly DonorsChoose.org currently has a promotion that helps students in receiving more materials for the classroom. If 10 donors make a donation in any amount DonorsChoose will give the classroom a $100 gift certificate to use for student materials; 25 people give a donation the classroom will receive a $500 gift certificate, and if 50 people give the class will receive a $1, 000 gift certificate!!!
Language Arts and Math
We have started Unit 2 in Language Arts. We are practicing the letter Aa this week. Not only are we learning to identify words that begin with the letter Aa, but we are also learning to identify words that have the sound for "a" in them such as cap, map, bat, can, etc.
Our new sight words this week are "little" "is" and "have." Please look for these words in your surroundings and in books when you read to your child.
We continue to practice our penmanship, please practice at home. I have noticed a big difference since we began the school year.
We have started a second writing journal. We practice writing in them on a daily basis. Students are encouraged to write about their weekend, things they like, their family, pets and they are also encouraged to respond to our readings. I have noticed that students are now using letters, sight words we have practiced such as I, am, and little, and other environmental print in addition to their illustrations.
In math we finished Number Packets 1-10 and have started our math curriculum. Currently we are working on Sorting and Classifying object by color, shape, and size. The vocabulary words we are using are alike and different.
October Activities Calendar
- The journal provided is for students to have a place to do their Activities that require writing, drawing or gluing of items. For example if the activity is to look for pictures in magazines that begin with the letter Pp and cut them out- then you can have your child glue those pictures onto one page. If the activity is asking that your child practices writing his/her name and you have already used the sheet provided, then please use a page from the journal.
- Not all activities require proof- for example scissor skills.
- Please keep the journal at home until the end of the month.
SHOW your Sea Lion Pride...
The PTC membership drive is going on now. Please show your support by joining the PTC. There are a lot of perks to being a member and it only costs $6 to join!!
