This document provides an overview of the learning centers, activities, and lessons from the past week in a classroom. It summarizes that the centers included listening to a book, poetry, handwriting, sequencing, sentences, and phonics. Specific activities are described for phonics like learning letter sounds and spelling like spooky handwriting. Other sections summarize math lessons on part-part-total and games played. Reading and theme activities are summarized like a global read aloud, identifying what is special about places, and a book about a community. The document concludes with reminders about an upcoming spelling review, Halloween party and parade, no school for teacher development, and an open book fair.
This document provides an overview of the learning centers, activities, and lessons from the past week in a classroom. It summarizes that the centers included listening to a book, poetry, handwriting, sequencing, sentences, and phonics. Specific activities are described for phonics like learning letter sounds and spelling like spooky handwriting. Other sections summarize math lessons on part-part-total and games played. Reading and theme activities are summarized like a global read aloud, identifying what is special about places, and a book about a community. The document concludes with reminders about an upcoming spelling review, Halloween party and parade, no school for teacher development, and an open book fair.
This document provides an overview of the learning centers, activities, and lessons from the past week in a classroom. It summarizes that the centers included listening to a book, poetry, handwriting, sequencing, sentences, and phonics. Specific activities are described for phonics like learning letter sounds and spelling like spooky handwriting. Other sections summarize math lessons on part-part-total and games played. Reading and theme activities are summarized like a global read aloud, identifying what is special about places, and a book about a community. The document concludes with reminders about an upcoming spelling review, Halloween party and parade, no school for teacher development, and an open book fair.
* Beginning Centers- what are they and how do they
work? What do we like about them? How do we keep track of the centers we have completed? Where do we keep our finished work from each center? * The Centers we started 1. The Listening Center- the book Big Pumpkin 2. Poetry Center- Finding missing Monster Words and Hunks and Chunks 3. Handwriting- practicing magic c letters: c, o and s 4. Sequencing how to grow a pumpkin 5. Making Sentences- finding the beginning and ending parts to make a complete sentence 6. Phonics- sorting ee ea or short e words 7. Spelling- writing my words in Spooky handwriting
Phonics and Spelling
* The hunks and chunks I learned this week ea and ee and ask me to sing you the chants about the scardy cat e and the scardy cat a as well as the bumble bee party * The different homophones and homonyms that we identified with the ee and ea hunk and chunk (meat/meet, hear/here) * Homophones- Ring, ring, ring. Hello, its a homophone. Two words sound exactly the same, but different spelling (clap 3 times), different meaning (clap 3 times) * Verbs- A verb! A verb! You do it, do it, do it! ask me to think of a couple verbs for you!
Math * Part- Part- Total: what is it and how do you find it? How can you use a domino to help you? *
The BINGO game we played with Mrs. Hildahl
and the Guess My Mystery Number game
* The math group for Divy -Up D Day that I was in
and ask me what we did!
Ask Me Abo
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Reading and Theme
* The Global Read Aloud, the next book we read: Thats Not Fair and the pictures we drew of something that happened to us that just wasnt fair! * Identifying what is special about me, my house, my town, my country and my world and the brainstorm list we created as a class *
The research we did to find out more
information about what makes our state, country and world special
Reading the book On the Town and the
Community Notebook Charlie created for school
REMINDERS! *
Tomorrow ~ Spelling Review
* Tomorrow is our Halloween Party and
Parade. Please remember to send your child to school in their school uniform. We will give the students time to change into their costumes for the party and parade. If you would like to arrive early to help the children get into costumes, please arrive by 1:30. Our classroom party will begin at 2:00 followed by the parade at 2:30. NO SCHOOL- Monday, November 2ndTeacher Professional Development The Book Fair is open until tomorrow! If you havent had a chance to stop by, please do! There is a great selection of books this year!