Week of August 5-8

Greetings from the Youngest Friend's room!

We had a wonderful first week together! I am so excited for what this year has in store.

Working together!

In reading this week we began with the story The Kissing Hand. This is the story of Chester raccoon and he is afraid to go to school. His mother kisses his hand and reminds him that her love is always with him even when he is at school. The kids loved this story! We talked about how we felt at school for the first time and even made a graph together to show our feelings on the first day.

Some of our friends making their very own kissing hand poems.

In writing this week we wrote about something we did this summer. It was so fun to hear about their stories and see their writing! This year we will be writing every day. We will be following the Lucy Calkins curriculum. I am so excited to see these writers grow!

Writers hard at work.

In math this week we began doing calendar with the smartboard and making numbers with connecting cubes with Ms. Brook. Ms. Brook will be teaching math this year as I am teaching Spanish. We read Anno's Counting Book and used the smartboard to practice counting. We also completed our beginning of the year assessment with the helps of Ms. Kelli's class.

Ms. Kelli's friends helping us in math.

Ms. Brook helping us make numbers with connecting cubes during math!

In Spanish this week we began using the smartboard to do calendar. We talked about the days of the week, the weather and practiced counting. On Thursday we watched a video about Goldilocks and the Three Bears and had a fun discussion throughout the video and afterward. So fun to see the kiddos speaking Spanish!

Some other parts of our day..

We really enjoyed pod this week! Ask your child to tell you what pod they are in and what they learned about with their friends in other parts of the school!

Pod was so much fun this week! We love being with our older friends!

Specials Schedule

Monday-Mosaic with Ms. Katelyn

Tuesday-Music with Ms. Amy

Wednesday-Learn to be Fit with Ms. Sara

Thursday-Brain Blast with Ms. Brenda

*We will begin Art in September

Daily Schedule

Time	What	With whom
9:00-9:15	Planner/Attendance/Lunch Count	Ms. Monica
9:15-9:45	Spanish	Ms. Monica
9:45-10:15	Shared Reading	Ms. Monica
10:15-10:35	Recess	Ms. Monica
10:35-10:55	Snack/Choices	Ms. Monica
10:55-11:25	Writing	Ms. Monica
11:25-11:30	Music and Movement	Ms. Monica
11:30-12:00	Literacy Groups	Ms. Monica
12:00-12:45	Lunch/Recess
12:45-1:05	Pod	Pod Teachers
1:05-1:45	Math	Ms. Brook
1:45-2:00	Recess	Ms. Monica
2:00-2:30	Social Studies	Ms. Monica
2:30-2:40	Clean-up/Pack-up	Ms. Monica
2:40-3:25	Specials	Monday-Mosaic with Ms. Katelyn Tuesday-Music with Ms. Amy Wednesday-Learn to be Fit with Ms. Sara Thursday-Brain Blast with Ms. Brenda

Notes/Reminders:

-please send a snack with your child every day

-please send a labeled water bottle to school with your child

-please send an extra change of clothes that will stay at school at all times. Several kiddos still need to bring in a change of cothes. I will remind them to check their backpacks on Monday. :)

-please send in $6 for your child's planner. We will be using our planners every morning

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Have a great week!

Ms. Monica