Miss Balla's Class shines so bright we've gotta wear shades!
Here is what we are working on this week...
Language Arts: All 6 weeks we will be working on:
Identifying all capital and lower case letters
Identifying all letter sounds
Using pictures in books to predict what will happen
Knowing print goes from top to bottom and left to right
Knowing that spaces separate words
Identifying the difference between a letter, word and sentence
and
Asking and responding to stories
Handwriting: Y and X, Z and V
We have already learned:
B,I,R,S,T,M,N,P,A,G,C,D,F,H,O,L,J,U
Sight Words: for,or, he, she
Words we know:
all color words
be,me,I,see,the,we,like,no,so,go,to,do,dog,it,its,is,my,by,you
up,my,by
Poem: The Floppy Scarecrow
Author Study: We are reading a chapter book about Squanto the Native American-ask your child about what has happened
Letter Stations: We are learning in many different letter stations. Ask your child what letter station they went to today.
Writer's Workshop: (this 6 weeks)
We have started writing sentences! We are working on drawing a setting, adding characters and then writing a sentence that starts with a capital letter, goes from left to right and then back to the left and has spaces in between words. We are also working on being able to copy sight words we want to use from the word wall and stretching out words we don't know and writing down any sounds we hear. Don't worry if your child is at home and misspells a word. I want them to feel confident about writing down the sounds they hear instead of worrying if it is spelled correct. For example: pumpkin can look like p or pm or pmk or pn. Just make sure they can read what they wrote. This is a GREAT thing to practice at home!
Math: We will begin to work on numbers 1-5. We will learn to write them correctly and count as well as make them different ways. We are also learning different ways to make the numbers. For example: 4: 0 and 4, 1 and 3, 2 and 2. Ask your child about the number station they went to today.
Social Studies:
We are learning about the history of Thanksgiving. We are learning about the customs of Pilgrims and the customs of the Native Americans. We are making costumes for both and will be wearing one in our program on Thursday. We are continuing to talk about things that we are thankful for.
Fine Arts Schedule:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Science
Thursday: Art
Friday: PE
I've been trying to sign up for library every Wednesday. I can't guarantee we'll always get that time, but I'll try.
We will also start going to the computer lab every week. Right now we will work on logging on and off.
Mrs. Plemons comes every other Tuesday-this week she talked about what to do when we get mad.
Upcoming Dates to Remember:
Nov. 17-CiCis pizza spirit night
Nov. 17-Picture Re-takes
Nov. 19-Kinder Thanksgiving program 9:00 a.m on the stage.
Nov. 20 Report Cards come home. Sign and return the white envleope.
Nov. 23-27 Thanksgiving Holiday-no school!
Dec. 1 Deadline to buy a yearbook. $25.00
Dec. 8 Our class will go and buy at the ornament shop
Dec. 8 PTA meeting choir/orff concernt
Dec. 12 Winter Wonderland Carnival 8:00-12:00
Lunch bunch schedule-let me know if you would like to volunteer to help with lunch and recess on these dates...
December 8
February 19
April 16
Wear class t-shirts every Wednesday.
Thanks for all you do! As always e-mail me if you have any questions! ballam@lisd.net
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