A Great Trip to Wolfe Neck Farm

Hello Families!

Let's be thankful that our field trip to Wolfe Neck Farm was last week instead of this week!  We were very fortunate to have beautiful weather for our trip.  The children enjoyed learning about the different farm animals and picking their own pumpkins from a pumpkin patch!  Back in the classroom, children wrote about what they saw at the farm, and they did a pumpkin sequencing activity with their substitute teacher when I was out sick on Wednesday.





Last week in Reading we:

• Continued reading emergent story books and practiced telling a story using sequencing words (first, then, next, etc.).
• Began adding sight words to our word wall.  These are words that children need to be able to read, write, and spell by the end of Kindergarten.  The words we currently have on our word wall are: a, the, and see.  We will continue adding words to our wall each week.
• Learned about syllables in words and sorted words based on their number of syllables.
• Continued to identify and sort rhyming words.
• Continued to practice pointing when reading.
• Learned that readers can make connections between characters in different stories.

Last week in Writing we:

• Learned to use the words around the classroom as a resource when trying to spell words.
• Learned that writers can say their story aloud across pages in a booklet before they begin their drawing and actual writing.  This helps writers plan what will go on each page.
• Practiced writing the letter M and and the numbers 1 and 2 during handwriting.
• Discussed how writers can get ideas of topics to write about from connections they've made while reading.
• Wrote thank you letters to our bus drivers for Bus Driver Appreciation Day on Friday.

Last week in Math we:

• Spent most days exploring teen numbers.  We like to call them the "tricky teens."  Students have learned that teens are two digit numbers in which the number in the tens' place is always a one.  We have explored these numbers through counting games and picture books.
• Played "Number Match," a game in which students pick two cards and determine if the number of dots on one card matches the numeral on the other card.

Best of luck to you and your family with the upcoming storm!  Let's hope it doesn't hit us too hard.
~ Katie