Hello everyone,

We had a used book sale today in the library. The children each got to pick a book and to take it home to keep. I forgot to mention it on the blog so I paid for the books as a treat to the children. They get to keep the book at home to enjoy!

Kelley

Hey parents,

I am super excited about this unit for Fundations!! The students are learning to tap out simple 3 letter words. This is such a benefit to them for reading and writing. You will see them using it when they write (someone already used it yesterday during writing!!). They will use this skill for solving unknown words.

Here is an example of what tapping looks like:

Kelley

Good morning! Wow our last week of January!! The children are settling back into routine nicely but we have some sickness going around our class 😔 hopefully everyone stays well.

Friday January 31 will be a school wide pajama day in support of the Special Olympics. Please send in a donation if you can!

Literacy:

We will be starting unit 2 in Fundations. I am sending home the package of homework tonight.

I am also sending home some Trick Word cards. These can be left at home to play games with your child. I have a two page sheet of games to play with the cards and will also be posting a video of me and some of the children playing the games so you can see them being played. I focus the camera on the game and not on the children.

Reading:

Last week we began reading in small groups. Everyone did great! I gave them really easy books to read so we can work on the skills that I am teaching. We learned about using Pointer Puppy and pointer power to point to each word as they read. We do this so our eyes and brain work together. Then we used our eagle eyes to look at the pictures if we didn’t know a word. Finally we used stretchy snake to look at the beginning sound of a word if we didn’t know it.

When you are reading with your child, make sure that they are pointing to each word and reading the word they are touching. Also learning the Trick Words will help them with reading as most of our books contain the words.

I sent the books on Friday and they are due back to school today (Monday). This is the way that I hope to send books each week. Please make sure to take care of the books and keep them in a safe place. Then return them each Monday. If the books are not returned, your child does not get to take another book home.

Numeracy:

We are continuing to work on the numbers to 6-10. This week we will finish up 8, 9, 10 and then move on to part part whole. Part part whole is understanding that 3 (part) and 2 (part) are parts of the number 5 (whole number).

Have a great week!

Kelley

I forgot to mention that some of the children have been asking to bring hockey sticks to school. This is okay as long as they are mini sticks and are being used appropriately!

There is usually quite a game of mini sticks going on the playground most days!!

God morning!

That was a wild and wooly weekend! Lots of snow and stormy weather. I hope everyone stayed safe and got a chance to play in the snow. I enjoyed some time with my family and snuggling puppies ❤️

Literacy:

We are working on writing a simple sentence that matches our pictures and using some trick words when we write.

We will begin reading today. This will just be an introduction group and later in the week we will take home a book.

Fundations this week is an assessment week. At home you can practice printing letters and letter sounds. Next week we will begin Unit 2.

Numeracy:

We are still working on learning the numbers 1-10. We are learning to recognize, count and build sets of a given number. This week we will talk about the number 7.

Have a great week!

Kelley

Good morning!

Well this hasn’t been a great start to January and the new year for me. My oldest daughter has been sick and then our dog had puppies earlier than expected!

We are super excited about our new babies and were expecting them on the weekend but they decided to come Friday morning! We welcomed 9 beautiful golden retrievers; 6 girls and 3 boys!

Literacy:

We will be beginning our last two letters in Fundations today and last week in unit 1. I have both last week and this weeks homework to go home.

We will continue work on writing and the structure of a sentence.

In the next week we will begin to start our reading groups. This will be done first thing in the morning from 8:30-9:15, so it is very important for the children to be here no later than 8:30. I will try to send 1 book home each week for your child to read to you but THEY NEED TO BE RETURNED BY FRIDAY OF THAT WEEK OR A NEW BOOK WON’T GO HOME.

Numeracy:

We are moving into numbers 6-10. This week we will learn how to print the number 6, what it looks like and what comes before and after.

I’m looking forward to getting back into a routine and learning!

Have a great week,

Kelley

Happy New Year!! Welcome Back to school!! I’m sure you are all ready for routine. I hope you all had a great break.

We will be getting back into the routine of the classroom, re-visiting the rules and routines of the classroom after the long break.

We will continue on with Fundations and will be starting a new unit this week. The homework will go home tomorrow.

In numeracy we will start working with the numbers 6-10. We will be breaking them apart into parts, building them and learning to print the numerals.

Have a great first week back to school!

Kelley