Week in Review ~ September 26th - 30th

It was a BUSY, BUSY, BUSY week in K2! On Wednesday we started our fall school-wide read aloud of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Our school now has a yellow brick road wrapping through the hallways at JA as well as some other great displays throughout the school. The K2ers are enjoying the story so far and we have been discussing some differences between the book and the movie that many have seen. So far, we have met Dorothy, the good witch and the scarecrow. They can't wait to see which character we meet next.

In ELA this week we talked about how we can get along with friends. We read the stories "What About Bear?", "The Lion and the Mouse", and "How to Be a Good Friend." We focused on the letter Mm by practicing the proper formation of uppercase and lowercase Mm, brainstorming words that begin with the letter Mm and sorting pictures by the initial sound of /m/ and the final sound of /m/. Our new sight word this week was the word "the" and our vocabulary words were friend, problem, escape, grasped and rescue. We also introduced what a noun is. In learning centers the K2ers sorted pictures by whether they were a person, place, thing or animal. They also wrote in their journals about what they like to do with their friends and what they share with their friends. This week they were also introduced to a favorite center activity called "I spy..." where the K2ers wear special I spy glasses and look around the room for picture cards with words that begin with a certain letter. They did a great job hunting for the Mm cards!

In math this week we finished up Topic 1 and on Friday we worked on the topic assessment. We will finish up the assessment on Monday and begin Topic 2 on Tuesday. In Topic 2 we will be counting and comparing numbers 0 - 5. I am SO impressed with how well everyone is writing their numbers...keep up the great work!

On the top of the home page of our blog I have added some new tabs. In my blog survey one suggestion that was given was to add a breakdown of our day so you can now see our daily schedule by clicking on the "K2 Schedule" tab. I also added a tab titled "What's Coming Up..." where you will see any important dates for the upcoming week(s). If you did not fill out our Class Blog Survey please take a minute to do so! It was posted on Wednesday, September 21st.

On Monday, K2 will have extra gym so please remember to send your child to school with sneakers that day.
Enjoy your {rainy} weekend...when I am not in a hockey rink I hope to be watching all the Big Papi tributes!

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