Week in Review ~ October 30th - November 3rd

This was certainly a very busy week full of lots of excitement between Halloween on Tuesday and our Rump Fair on Friday. 

In ELA our essential question was What shapes do you see around you? Our vocabulary words were nature, materials, games, decoration and world.  We listened to the stories Shapes All Around, Kites in Flight, and Find the Shapes.  The letter of the week that we focused in on was Tt. We listened for where we heard the /t/ sound in words; the initial sound or the final sound. Our new sight word this week was like. We also discussed what a verb is.  In learning centers we practiced writing Tt, listened for where the /t/ sound was and sorted pictures, wrote in our journals about shapes in we see in our classroom, practiced writing our sight words and matched uppercase to lowercase letters. 

In Math we started Topic 3: Numbers 6-10.  We will be reading, writing and counting numbers 6-10. Practice at home with writing these numbers would be greatly appreciated.  On Halloween we enjoyed some fun Halloween-themed math centers. The K2ers had a lot of fun visiting them.  We also read The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything which had a sequencing activity to go with it. 

On Friday we enjoyed a fun-filled "Rump Day" to celebrate our school wide read-aloud.  Our day started with a spinning wheel demonstration. We learned how the wool from sheep are shaved, cleaned, combed and spun into yarn. 

Then we went and visited the Fair where we made name bracelets, played games, looked for gold, listened to 5th grade do a quick skit and even had a special snack. 

Last, we got to go on a hayride throughout the parking lot at JA. The K2ers really loved that!

Our Pixie Habitat was completed on Friday as well and what an awesome Pixie Habitat it was. Everyone painted, glued or did some part to make it. Great job, K2...I think ours was the best!!

I would also like to just take this opportunity to thank everyone for their thoughts and well wishes at the passing of my Mom. This was a very difficult time for my family and me as she was not sick long and her passing so quickly was unexpected. She was truly one of the best! She was always so proud of me for being a teacher so while coming back to work this past Monday was tough, I knew it was what she would want me to do. Being greeted by my K2ers in the cafeteria with smiles, hugs and "Mrs. Joslyn's back" certainly made it easier.