Week of October 25-29

Our Halloween party was a great success! Thank you to all the parents who helped and a huge THANK YOU to our room parent Stephanie Perenyi for organizing it all! The kids wore some very cute costumes and enjoyed a craft table, a Halloween game, and listened to a spooky story.

This week in the classroom, we learned a new math game called Spin A Number. As children played, they worked through a game board and developed their number sense. This game, and others, can be found on the Everyday Math site. Use the card inside your child's Friday Folder to log in and play!

Our letter this week was "r," and kids practiced writing and writing about "r" topics. Kids wrote about rats, rainbows, and the letter "r" itself. Next week, we will start learning two letters a week, now that kids are more comfortable with the class and handwriting. In reading, we practiced listening to words for their sounds. We stretched out words for kids to hear the beginning, middle, and end sounds. We are also encouraging our kids to start trying to spell words by putting letters down that they hear. We created a fun Halloween book where children illustrated their own pages with the costume they planned on wearing, as well as writing the word as they hear it on the line provided. It came out great! The class also learned a new Sight Word Reader book That Hat. The kids only had one day with this book, so they might need a bit more help with it at home.

I hope all the kids have a safe and fun weekend!