November feast!

Here are the Pilgrims and Native Americans in room 7 enjoying their feast together.  Many thanks for all the supplies sent in to help it be successful!  I hope you had  a wonderful break and were able to enjoy time with your families and think about the great things you're thankful for!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Ocean World in October!

October has flown by!  We had a great time seeing AND touching real ocean animals at the Ocean World program!

We've been learning new letters each week.  So far we have learned the letters t,f,b,m,n,i,u,g,a,d,s, e, and r. They are doing a great job at using their "best guess" spelling.  You'll notice in their writing there may not be too many vowels, we are trying to write down the sounds we hear.  The beginning sound is usually the easiest to figure out then we stretch out the word and listen for other sounds.  I use a rubber band to show them how to stretch out the words.  We've been doing some interactive writing where the kids will take turns coming up with all the parts of a story (one story was bout a lion jumping out of his cage at the zoo and another about a fall day playing and going in a pool).  I'm stretching the words out as I write them and volunteers have been coming up to fill in letters/sight words.  The sight words we've added to our wall are mom, I, in, is, it, the, to, do, dad, a, am,, and, at and can.



In math we have been working on printing the numbers 0-10, using number poems to help us, counting groups of objects and making combinations of 5 (2,3/1,4/0,5 for example) and making combinations of 10 (which is very tricky!) 

Many thanks to our helpers during the Halloween party, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. Lederhos, and Mrs. Maxymillian-Wheeler!  The kids had a great time!

First day!

We had a great first day today!!  We did soo much!  We had our snack, we did calendar, we listened to the Kissing Hand  we made our own kissing hands, we went to art, we had lunch and recess, free time with our friends, went on a scavenger hunt in the class and ended the hunt with picking something out of the treasure box!  We were busy!

Here are some pictures from the day...

Looking forward to many more wonderful days...

September news

Welcome to room 7!  It has been so nice chatting with everyone at the screening appointments!  If you did not order supplies through the school using the kits, please remember to send them in during the first week of school.

Reminders for the first day, bring a snack, a blanket/towel for rest time, and a lunch (or make sure you have set up the school bucks account if your child plans on buying).

Looking forward to a great first day!

Veteran's Day

We had a great visit from Sergeant Wilson and her son Cadet Wilson.  They talked about the 5 branches of the military, sang songs with us and even showed us some commands!  What important jobs they have!  We know now to honor people who have served our country and thank them for all they do!  See if your child can name the 5 branches!

We will be having a Thanksgiving feast on Wednesday the 23rd.  I'll be sending information soon about some supplies we would love to have donated!   Have a great weekend!

October News

Boy have we had a busy month!  We have been learning new letters and sounds, practicing how to print those letters and applying the letter sounds!  We read lots of versions of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and compared/contrasted them.  Our last book was told from the troll's point of view and according to him "goats just don't know hospitality" (he was the "victim" in the story of course).  It was very funny to hear about how nice he was to the goats, we all laughed!  We sequenced pictures from the story and made goat headbands.

We also had an Open Circle about Cooperation.  We talked about how to work together when we need to solve problems.  We are always respectful and kind.

We also learned about pumpkins!  We read books about pumpkins, watched a video about pumpkins, worked on pumpkin books adding "seeds" to the pages to help us count, ordered pictures of a pumpkin plant (thanks to Alora for bringing in a flower from her pumpkin plant!)

And of course we couldn't forget Halloween!  We made haunted houses, decorated pumpkins with shapes and recorded how many shapes we used, used play dough to make the correct number of pumpkins on fall mats, wrote about what we want to be during Writer's Workshop, played Halloween letter bingo, read lots of Halloween stories and played some fun counting games with partners such as "ghost flips".

We started our week with a parade and Halloween party!  Many thanks to all who donated items and helped make it special!  A big thank you to Mrs. O'Shea, Mrs. Du Ross and Mrs. Stein for coming in and making our party great!

Happy Halloween!!