Week of September 6th

Wow! What a busy 4 day school week we have!
-We are learning all about the color orange and experimenting with the colors that make orange. We will mix such things as paint, skittles in water, and food coloring to discover that red and yellow make orange.
-For Phonemic Awareness (all about sounds, no print) we are focusing on rhyming using such books as Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat. For a home connection, practice rhyming at every opportunity. Give your child a word and have them make 2 rhymes (nonsense words are ok) to go with that word. When in the grocery store and passing say, the apples, ask your child for a word that rhymes with apple.
-We are also beginning a letter of the week. We will keep in sequence with the alphabet to make it easier on all of us! So this week we are beginning the letter Aa. The activites we will do with each letter are: tracing, finding in print, learning it's sound and sign (sign language), listening to music with words that begin with that sound, bringing in realia and/or pictures and/or words from home that begin with that sound, creating mini alphabet books, and many more activities that reach out to every kind of learner. For a home to school connection, have your student identify upper and lower case letter Aa's wherever you go. Also have them tell you the sound the Aa makes and search for things that begin with the letter.
-Homework each week will be to bring in one item, picture or word from home that begins with the letter of the week. On Friday's, students who brought things in will get to choose something from the treasure box. The things students bring in will be used to create a Letter of the Week scrapbook page for an in-class book.
-Word Wall has already been introduced but we will have more focus now that we are learning each letter. Students will begin work on the word wall by alphabetizing their first names. Each week, we will add words to the word wall that we are focusing on within the theme/curriculum.
-For math we are working on the number 7 this week. When working with numbers, we practice tracing the number, counting out that many items, making 1:1 correspondences (touch each object while counting), putting the numbers in order and recognizing greater than and less than. For home to school connections, use buttons, beans, M&M's (anything tangible) for you child to count. Write any number 1-7 and have your child count out that many items. Or you lay out a small number of items and have your child count (making contact and assigning a number) to each object. Extend or modify activities as necessary to your child's current needs.

I will get pictures posted as soon as next week!!!! So tune in and stay continued!!!