Dear River Families,
This week in River we had our 30th day of school and welcomed October! The children completed a writing sample that I will keep to compare growth in later months. We wrapped up our apple study and began focusing more on the four seasons and pumpkins! The children discussed with one other what they wear, what activities they enjoy and what the weather is like in each season, followed by a journal entry. Centers this week included small group reading lessons, tactile alphabet practice, and making words with the magnetic letters. Math this week included writing numerals and matching quantities to numbers. We continued working to read and create graphs.
We studied a few poems in our Jr. Great Books! One of our favorite activities was reading a poem about canoeing at night, and interpreting what our ideas of a ‘shadowy shore’ were. Health and Nutrition this week included learning about the human body, and how it works. Ms. Kathleen continued to work with the children on reading music including note identification and tempo.
Next week we will begin our shares about our favorite book! Please help your child with take home reading by asking them to identify sight words, “decode” not guess and point to every word while reading. To decode, I ask the children to identify the letter sounds and then slide. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me for more information! For our upcoming field trip to the pumpkin patch (approximately 10am- 12:30pm on October 18th), I would love at least 1-2 volunteers to walk with the class. I need one more volunteer to drive to the pumpkin patch and help us by driving the pumpkins the children select back to Treehouse. Let me know if you are interested! Thank you!
Sincerely,
Ms. Lauren and Ms. Andrea
