Dear Fearless Falcon Parents,
We have been very busy! We are incredibly proud of our class name. Everyone we meet is in awe of the power of our name. I am trying to come up with a creative classroom t-shirt that we can make. If any of you creative folks out there have any suggestions I have ears wide open. This week we watched our Painted Lady butterfly chrysalides hatch and our final monarch hatch. We released them and watched them fly off to their new warm destination. "Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go to Mexico!" Oh what fun. It was fun to observe the differences of the two Chrysalides and the difference in the butterflies. Observations in the natural setting, what can get better than that for a scientist. We have begun our new adventure in our handwriting book. We have talked about the writing lines and the lines that create the different letters. We have standing tall line, laying down lines, forward and backward slants, forward and backwards smiley's, Super C, and clock face. The kids are becoming experts on how to talk about making their letters. We have learned two new math games for learning our numbers, the value, sequence, and greater and less than. It also teaches us turn taking and how to lose and win with dignity. We play Garbage and Monster Squeeze as we begin to learn these skills. We have earned the golden whistle, in gym, for the third week in a row. Our behavior is exceptional. We are learning rhythms in music class, and created a collage in art using, craypas and tissue paper. Our learning opportunities are endless. Ms. Sam has been a bit crazy this week as we talked about the skinny sound and how our mouth feels while we are making the noisy and quiet skinny sounds (s and Z) We made a pretend sound soup with items that begin with the quiet sound (stinky socks) and noisy sounds (zesty zebra). We were able to use our imagination to taste the soup and use our adjectives to describe the soup. We had a lot of giggles. Ms. Kelly was sick this week so she was unable to join us for a few days. We did send her some positive healing thoughts during our calendar time. We also welcomed Ms. Kim into our classroom to help out while Ms. Kelly was healing. We have been writing some simple books for our book boxes that focus on color and simple sentences. We have been creating and writing and getting stronger with each one we write. We will soon apply our reading strategies. We had two visitors this week, one was from our former Readiness teacher, Ms. Candy. She came in to help us with a math lesson on fractions. This also tied into our discussion on butterflies. The kids made some delicious butterflies that they brought home. What a treat to be taught by such an amazing teacher that is still very active in our learning. The kids had some great ideas how they could extend this activity at home. I hope they shared their ideas with you. This Friday we had a visitor from a stranger who came knocking on our classroom door looking for food. (Don't worry it was Ms. Sam dressed as a stranger who was very hungry) We were able to carry out the story of stone soup, and create a delicious soup that we were later able to sample. This in itself was a challenge. Working with the kids on a "Polite Bite" before saying I don't like it is always a challenge. I was so proud of each of the kids for being brave and trying the soup and then giving a yes please or a no thank you. This is always a learning time and a challenge. We were all very very brave. We read many different versions of Stone Soup and discussed the similarities and differences of each text. We are settling into our classroom and routine and adjusting to unexpected changes. * On Thursday we will have our first evacuation drill. * Popcorn on Wednesday 50 cents * Ice cream on Friday 75 cents Thank you for sharing your child with me, we are truly becoming a family. Comments are closed.
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I Believe“You cannot make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen.” ~ Vince Gowmon Archives
August 2021
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