Hello families,
What an exciting week we've had. We enjoyed having many family members join us for our closing circle on Wednesday and we had fun celebrating filling our heart jar with a stuffie day on Thursday! We learned and practiced HEART expectations for a few new places and events this week: using the school grounds, going to the buddy room or SSR (Student Support Room), going to an assembly (like the All School Morning Meeting on Friday morning) and having a guest teacher. As a class we also wrote a morning message together to use with a guest teacher. They will have a chance to practice showing HEART with a guest teacher again tomorrow, Friday, which is why I'm sharing our highlights a bit early this week.
In reading we continued to increase our reading stamina and worked on our volume to make sure we are doing our best and giving a quiet learning space to others. We also kept adding to our stamina graph, trying to be engaged in reading for a longer overall time.
We love to read in the library too after we choose new books!
We finished reviewing all the vowel and consonant sounds and continue to practice lowercase letter formation.
Our read alouds gave us great opportunities to have meaningful conversations about individuality, what makes you you, and what we need to feel calm when the world around us is loud and chaotic. We practiced listening and responding to each others ideas. A few books we read this week are: It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity; Charlotte and the Quiet Place; Angus All Aglow; Neither; and Only One You.
In math we continued working with the part/part/whole concept with teen numbers. In our Ten Frame booklet we started using 2 colors to show the two parts of a whole number and wrote equations to match. Then we started playing a game, Double Compare, to continue to deepen this understanding and work on ways to show our thinking about how we know what the whole number is and how we know which whole number is bigger.
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| Ask your child, "Who won this round of double compare? How do you know?" |
We also continue to develop our growth mindset, watching a few videos to spark conversation and practicing working hard and fixing mistakes in our own work!
I know the Fox Kits will be kind, flexible and show lots of HEART for the guest teacher on Friday. Check in with them tomorrow to see how they think it went!
Dates to Remember:
- October 2 - Walk to School Day. Meet at the Rite Aid at 7:35 AM to participate in this schoolwide event.
- October 8 - No School
- October 16 - PTO Meeting
- October 18 - All School Morning Meeting 8:15-8:45
- October 24 - Picture Retake Day
- October 24 & 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00 (activities available with prior sign-up)
Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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