Letters to know

This week in Reading we read a story called "Good Morning Digger" and "What Do Wheels Do All Day?" We talked about different kinds of wheels, why we need wheels, and what we can use them for. We focused on the letter P this week and sang a song for our alphafriend Pippa Pig. We also focused on adjectives for numbers and how number words can describe something. Our sight word for the week was "to." 


Here are all the sight words your child should be able to recognize and read: I, a, and, to, we, see, the, like. Please be reviewing these with your child at home. But most of the students are doing a great job with these words!


In phonics we focused on the letter F/f. We did our normal phonics worksheets and tests. We also watched and listened to song about the letter F/f. The kids really enjoyed it, it was easy to sing along with and they got to practice saying the sound and writing the letter in the air. We fingerpainted the letter F/f, made a "fire" page, decorated a fish, and made a flower out of the letter F. For writing, we started our Thanksgiving Journal. Each day we will add another page to it.

Here are the letters that your child should recognize and know the sound for: l, o, g, m, n, a, i, s, t, h, g, f. So these are the letters that make up the words on the reading practices. They are all words that your child should be able to sound out. Please be reviewing these at home as well. It is important that the students be able to blend the sounds correctly. I am seeing a big improvement though from even just a month ago! We have a hard-working class!

In math we worked on sorting. The students sorted buttons, pasta, and beads. The did a great job of describing the different ways that things could be sorted: by color, size, shape, etc. We are still doing the days of the week, months of the year, and counting to 40.

Sorting buttons- this group decided to sort theirs by color. 

This group did it by size. 

Sorting pasta.

Making the numbers with playdoh. 

The front cover of our Thanksgiving Book. 

The first page in our Thanksgiving Book: we learned that pilgrims came to America. 

2nd page. We learned that they came over on a ship called The Mayflower and that they landed at Plymouth Rock. 

Make a flower and fingerpainting for the letter F/f. 

 Making our "fire"

 Every week we have a poster with our letter on it for the week. The students can add pictures and words to it if they'd like. This week they came up with: frog, fox, feather, and flower.