Mrs. Rays Busy Bee's: Letter A, apples, and applesauce!

Hey sorry I didn’t blog for last week! But I’ll let you know things we worked on last week, and then also this week too!

Last week was kind of a crazy week! We did our TPRI testing, so we had a sub in the class while I took the kids out one at a time to do the testing. You should be getting the results of your child’s TPRI test in their red folders on Monday. The test dealt with how well they recognize their letters, know their sounds, how well they can blend sounds together, if they know rhyming words, and how well they can comprehend a short story. Some of the students were even able to go on to the reading section, where they sounded out words! If any of you would like to conference or if you have any questions about the test results, please let me know.

In Phonics last week we focused on the letter A/a. We tasted apples and made a graph of everyone’s favorite. We had a tie for all three kinds! 7 students liked yellow the best, 7 liked green the best, and 7 liked red the best! We also got to make applesauce on Friday. We read a few books about apples and learned more about where apples grow, and how they are then turned into applesauce. We are continuing to do our phonics worksheets on Monday-Thursday. The students know that on Thursday, we have our test. They use privacy folders and do the worksheet all on their own! This week, we also started entering grades into our gradebook!

In math last week our focus was the months of the year. The students made a mouse month-by-month calendar that had pictures of different events that happen throughout the year.

Apple Tasting!

Getting our applesauce ready!

Working on our apple craft

Trying our finished applesauce!

Working on our Month-by-Month Calendar

This week in reading we read a book about flying kites, and the students focused on words that start with the S sound and the M sound. They learned a little song about Mimi Mouse and Sammy Seal. They also brought home two books that were all about the letter S. Please don’t forget to be reading with your child on Wednesday and then again on Thursday night with the books they bring home. In the past two weeks, the students learned what a verb is and worked really hard on coming up with verbs, writing verbs, and then also writing sentences that had a noun and a verb in it.

In phonics we focused on the letter N/n. We did several worksheets with the letter N and this week the students started their first reading practice with our phonics materials. They were asked to read 10 words from a list. All the words included only letters we have learned in class, so they are all words that they should be able to sound out. They will get a reading practice sheet every week with different words to sound out. The students also made a number collage for the letter N/n, where they cut out numbers in magazines and also wrote down different numbers they could think of. On Friday they got to make a nest craft.

In math this week, we worked on counting and writing the numbers. The students made a number book and looked at numbers 1-10 to see how they were similar and how they were different.

On Tuesday, we went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch in Salado. The students had a great time walking there and getting to watch a program! Then they each got a cookie and some juice, and even got to bring back their own pumpkin. Don’t forget that on Wednesday we are driving to Elgin to go to the pumpkin patch there for the whole day!

Another special treat thing we did this week, was we had Dr. Novotny come talk to us. In Social Studies the kids are learning about authority figures, so they had Mrs. Nix come talk to them one day and Dr. Novotny, our superintendent, also came and talked to them about what it’s like to be an authority figure, who are authority figures are, and how we can treat them.

Walking to the pumpkin patch