The first full week of school went really well. There were a few tears in the beginning of the week, but we all survived and with the cooler weather today, we ended on a very happy note! Today your child is bringing home their first jolly phonics sound book with our first set of sounds. Your child should practice "reading" their sounds to you (or a sibling or even a stuffed animal) several times this weekend. While they are doing this, they should do the motions as well. The motions are an important component of the program! Next week we will begin our second set of sounds and continue blending the sounds together to make new words.
Our theme next week is colors. We will practice reading color words, read books about colors and do some projects. During science, we will conduct two "experiments". The children will be working with lemonade, coolade, graham cracker sticks, and cool whip. If you child can not have any of these things, please let me know so I can plan accordingly. In math we will be working on patterning and be introduced to graphing. The students will use our junk boxes to make patterns and will record color patterns on a worksheet. Hopefully next week we will start learning about how our centers and start learning how to rotate through them. We still have many procedures to learn before we become independent workers.
I do want to thank you all for coming to the Orientation on Wednesday. We had a great turnout and I hope you found the information to be helpful. If you have any questions about anything, please don't hesitate to call or email. I appreciate the donations as well. If you have sent something in, THANK YOU!
Enjoy the 4 day weekend. Take some time for fun!
