Dot Day Fun

On September 15th, International Dot Day is celebrated.  It is a day to be a creative thinker.  We read the story "The Dot".  Then we each had our own dot to create into anything we wanted.  This was a lot of fun to come up with ideas and see what each student decided their dot could be.  These were sent home and we hoped that you enjoyed them!

Name Puzzles

We have been continuing to discuss the letters and this week we spent some time on name puzzles.  Mrs. Hendershot cut these puzzles pretty trick so it took us a LONG time and a lot of help to get them back together.  They came home early on in the week.  But here are some pictures of our frustrating fun!  :)

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, September 20, 2013

Dates:

     September 25^th – Early Out

     October 9^th – Early Out

     October 14^th – No School

     October 23^rd – Early Out

     October 29^th – Picture Retakes

Daily 5:

The last 2 weeks we have been working on our Daily 5.  We now have all of the five dailies in place and working in our classroom.   We do Read to Self, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading, Word Work, and Read to Someone.   They are doing a very nice job on these.  During Read to Self the students read to themselves books they have picked.  During Work on Writing we write in our journals and practice our writing.  Also we have been working on rhyming and sounds.  It is always a good thing to practice with your child. Ask your child about all of our work during the Daily 5.

Math:

We have spent the last two weeks in math working on patterns and graphs.  We have talked about the different types of graphs there are like a picture graph and a bar graph.  We had a good time with this because we graphed some of our favorite things.  The patterns were fun because we were able to make sound, movement, shape, and color patterns.  Ask us to show you this.  We will be moving on to numbers next! 

Writing:

We are almost finished with our capital letters in handwriting.  Please continue to practice these letters at home.  The correct formation is important to their success as an early writer.  We will now move on to the lower case letters.  These can be tricky too!  Thanks for all your hard work on their writing skills!

Helpful Hints:

     Practice the sounds each letter makes in the alphabet.

     Begin writing numbers to 10 and beyond. Watch for backwards numbers.

     Work on words that rhyme.  You say a word and your child will tell you a word that rhymes with it. 

Pete the Cat!!!

Last week we also spent a bit of our time reading Pete the Cat and creating our own Pete the cats to hang in the hallway.  If you have time you should come check them out.  We each picked our favorite color to create the shoes that Pete is wearing.  It was a lot of fun to do this activity!

There was an old lady...

We spent some time last week reading a favorite book about an old lady who liked to swallow things.  Then the students were able to create their own idea of what the old lady swallowed.  They LOVED this activity and were very creative about what she swallowed.  I hope you enjoyed those papers when they came home!

Word Work has began!!!

Our third part of our daily 5 is Word Work.  It is just like it sounds.  We are working with words.  We love this as we get to spend our time working with others to create letters and words!  We are having lots of fun!!

Enjoy!!