Regarding Halloween costumes, Mrs. Taggert shared, "Students can come to school wearing their costumes as long as they do not interfere with their school day. We will not be taking time to change into or out of costumes. No weapons, masks, or overly scary costumes will be allowed." If students need to add something to their costume for the party that they can quickly put on, that will be ok. We just cannot send students to bathroom for full outfit changes. Please no face paint or hair paint. Our Fall Party is on October 31st starting at 2:40 that is organized by our wonderful room parents.
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This week for our Second Steps lesson we learned more about recognizing feelings. We studied this boy's face and talked about how he is angry. We talked about how being angry is an uncomfortable feeling and how people show anger in different ways. We discussed how it is ok to be angry, but that we may not lose control and harm others or ourselves. We talked about what to do if a friend is angry, including give them space, ask them if there is anything they need, ask them if they need help solving the problem or offer a hug
Friday morning, we gave compliments to one another and then it was time for Show and Tell. I told a few students who forgot they can bring it on Monday.
Reading: This week we looked closely at various ABC charts. We talked about how we can use any ABC chart to help us learn our letter sounds. We continue to identify words and their beginning sounds.
We also looked closely at punctuation this week and learned that the different symbols mean and how it affects our voice. We also learned to look closely at character's emotions and change our voice accordingly. We practiced reading Super Mouse while changing our voices according to how super mouse was feeling. Each student received a copy to practice.
We practiced reading our sight words he and is this week. Many students are picking up on these quickly. Some would benefit from daily flash card practice at home. I will provide them to you at conferences if I feel like this would be a useful tool for your child.
Math: This week we began learning about composing and decomposing numbers. We looked at all the possible ways to make numbers up to 5. For example, 1 and 4 make 5, 2 and 3 make 5, and 0 and 5 make 5. We used lots of different visual representations to learn this concept.
Writing: This week we continued writing our Show and Tell books. We are working on thinking and writing our ideas down on paper, stretching out our words using our letter sound knowledge. We also learned we need to be brave spellers and use all of resources. I've taught them they are not to ask me how to spell words, but trust themselves to use their letter sound charts and write they hear.
Parent Teacher Conferences are October 22nd and 24th. Here is the schedule below. I look forward to talking with you.
