Wow! I apologize that it's been so long since my last post! Life has gotten away from me just a bit! So here goes, a little game of catch up!
As of this past week, we are up to working on the letter Ii. Beginning with the letter Ff, we started talking about seasons and doing activities using fall colors. For letter Gg, since that was the week of Thanksgiving, we, as you may have noticed, did many activities with ghosts. For the letter Hh, we focused on harvest and revisited the fall/autumn season, decorating the room with our handmade scarecrows and paint/wax paper leaf prints. It looks amazing in our classroom! This past week, we talked about the letter Ii. We added the next color, indigo, to our rainbow and began singing the rainbow song ("Red, orange, yellow, green followed by blue, then it's indigo and violet, that's the rainbow song for you!") Since Thanksgiving is approaching, we are learning about the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Our Ii connection is the indians that helped the pilgrims build, plant, hunt and harvest.
For math, we are now up to counting by 5's and 10's to 60! I am constantly amazed at how quick and SMART my students are! They are such sponges at this age! We continue to work on patterns of increased complexity and are playing such games as Bingo and matching numbers to objects, to identify our numbers through 12.
Over the next few weeks we will be working on identifying, spelling and writing our last names. We will also be recognizing and categorizing the difference between letters (on their own) and groups of letters (that form words). You can practice this at home, as well, listing single letters and then words having your child identify which is which. (They are not reading the words, however.)
Mark your calendars! November 22nd is the Family Feast for our class! Each family is asked to bring their favorite dish, enough to feed 8. More details to follow!
In December, there will be an all school Christmas pageant and each class is doing a song. Our class will be singing all verses of Frosty the Snowman! So practice this song at any and every opportunity!
I will send you the lyrics (you'd be shocked how quickly we forget)!
