A Colorful Week

It's been a colorful week!  It was so fun to see all of the kids dressed up for color week.  Thanks for participating! 

We read a lot of great color books this week: Clifford the Big Red Dog, Otto's Orange Day, The Yellow Tutu, Emeraldalicious, Pinkalicious, Purplealicious, One Brown Bunny, and The Black Book of Colors.

Monday was our first time meeting our third grade reading buddies from Mrs. Carlson's class.  We listened to a story and worked together to draw a picture of ourselves and wrote something that made us special.  We will read with our buddies most Mondays!   Don't forget that Mondays we also go to the library for lessons and book exchange, so bring back those library books!

 

In writing, we practiced our handwriting of letters with straight lines.  E, L, F, H, i and l are good letters to start with because you pull your pencil down to start. Keep practicing these letters with your child.  It's also important that your child can correctly write his or her name, with an uppercase letter to start and lowercase letters.  Next week we'll work on letters with diagonal lines.  Each day this week, we practiced writing color words and drawing pictures of things that are usually that color. We labeled our picture with beginning sounds. 

In math, we can now draw a picture to match the number of objects in our counting jar.  Be on the lookout for our class counting jar coming home to your family.  You will get the chance to fill it up with something for our class to count!  

Thomas was our first star of the week!  We learned all about his hobbies and interviewed him about favorite things.  He brought in two cool toys and we got to see pictures of his family. Today we made him a book of pictures that he will get to take home next week.  Stefanos is the star of the week next week!  

We are becoming such experts at learning about the weather.  Maybe you'll see one of the kids in our class as the local meteorologist someday!  We can identify weather symbols, and we know all about different kids of weather and how to be prepared for different types of weather conditions. Next up, clouds!  We will also start something new in Social Studies next week.  Now that we know all about classroom rules and responsibilities, we will learn about important United States symbols.   

Scholastic Book orders were due today.  If you were thinking about ordering, let me know as soon as possible, or order this weekend!  I didn't submit the order yet, since the internet was down all day at school today.  A new order form will come home next month.  

Do you ever make play-doh at home? If you are willing to make donate some to our class, it would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if you are interested! 

I'm anxious to have parents come in as classroom volunteers, but I have to finish my primary assessments of the students first.  Be on the lookout for a link for a Sign Up Genius soon if you'd like to be a mystery reader, or come into the classroom to help out!   I'll probably be ready for volunteers in about two weeks.