Week of October 4-8

Dear Families:
What a fun and busy week! We were so lucky to have such wonderful weather.

Animated Alphabet: This week we learned about Arnie Aardvark and Jenny Jaguar. The students are really doing a great job learning the characters, as well as the letters they teach and the sounds those letters make. Keep the pictures coming! Expect a new character to come home every Monday and Thursday night on a regular school week. If that schedule changes I will let you know.

Literacy: This week students took a word test to see how well they could sound out and write words from pictures. We will take this quiz again at the end of the year to show how much progress they have made. In small groups we also started working on reading and making a book about Fall. Centers are still going well. This week I introduced a new center where students are learning to read and recognize each others names.Next week we are going to venture into some finger-painting. Wish me luck!

Math: This week students finished up Unit 1 and we will be taking the unit test on Monday. We practiced connecting the dots and students also learned how to use a map - sort of!

Don't forget...
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