Welcome, November!

It's hard to believe that today is the last day of October!  Your children have been very busy learners these last two months.  

This week during Reading Workshop we:

• learned different ways to read our alphabet linking chart.  We can point and name the letters, the sounds, or both.  With a buddy, we can play different alphabet chart games.
  
  
  
  
• learned that readers get to know a book before they jump in and start reading.  Readers look at the cover and through the pages to determine what type of book it is (alphabet, familiar story, just-right book, etc.) so they can decide the type of reading they should do with that book.
  
  
  
  
• played "guess the covered" word to help us practicing using Eagle Eye and Lips the Fish as strategies for reading unknown words.
• enjoyed a read aloud and rhyming activity with Ms. Honan!
  

This week during Writing Workshop we:

• went outside to look closely at, and write about, something in our surroundings.
  
  
  
  
• learned that even if something is not right in front of us for us to observe closely, we can still draw and write about it from our memory.
• reviewed that writers leave spaces between their words so they, and others, can read their writing. 
• chose a piece of writing to fancy-up and publish.

This week during Math we:

• learned about exchanging.  We played a game that involved collecting ten cubes which we could then exchange for a long (ten). 
  
  
  
  
  
• practiced reading, building, and comparing teen numbers on a teen frame.
  
  
  
  
• learned about and practiced counting by tens.
• compared numbers using a number line.
• played Addition Top-It to improve our fluency with basic addition facts.

I hope you all enjoy the weekend with your children!
Best,
Katie