Friday Flash!

Friday Flash 

November 24^th- November 26^th 2014

Focus of the Week ·      Literacy: Rhyming, word patterns ·      Social Studies: Thanksgiving ·      Math: Counting out a set, number ID, 3D shapes Notes/Reminders ·      Sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences is open on the APS webpage. We will have 11:15 Early Releases on 12/9 and 12/17 for afternoon conferences and a set of night conferences on 12/11. ·      Wednesday, 11/26 is a 12:00 Early Release (no lunch, we will eat snack), and there is no school on Thursday or Friday. Conversation Starters         Tell me about Jack and Annie’s Secret Messages!                What 3D shapes did you build with marshmallows/toothpicks?            What words can you build with the word pattern _at?              How do you play “Moose” at math? What about “Where is Peanut?”

Class Pet Pete the Pig is excited to spend this weekend with Ryan! Please help your child document Pete’s weekend through photos and/or drawings and words in his journal. Thanks! Getting ready for Winter      As winter approaches please think about helping your child learn to dress for recess independently. We are here to help, but 21 kids= 42 boots and 42 mittens! The more quickly we can get ready, the more time we will have to play outside!               We will go out to play unless it is extremely cold, so please send your child with hats/gloves and boots/snowpants if it is snowy!

Friday Flash

Friday Flash 

November 17^th- November 21^st 2014

Focus of the Week ·      Literacy/Social Studies:  -Ancient Egypt: Mummies in the Morning -Letter Sounds -Segmenting sounds in words ·      Math: Counting out a set, number ID, 3D shapes Notes/Reminders ·      Parent Teacher Conferences are in December. Sign up is open on the APS webpage. We will have 11:15 Early Releases on 12/9 and 12/17 for afternoon conferences and a set of night conferences on 12/11. You will choose a 15 min slot that is convenient for you! Ms. Magni We are excited to welcome our student teacher, Ms. Magni, to our classroom. She will be with us for four weeks while she finishes her early childhood practicum at Lesley! Things we need I would love to have some extra mittens/gloves in the classroom in case kids need them this winter. Any donations would be appreciated!

Class Pet Pete the Pig is excited to spend this weekend with Summer! Please help your child document Pete’s weekend through photos and/or drawings and words in his journal. Thanks! Conversation Starters      What has happened so far in Mummies in the Morning? How are Jack and Annie feeling?             What are some 3D shapes you know?      Tell me about dramatizing the Egyptian marketplace.      Let’s play forbidden words (choose a “forbidden word” and a topic to discuss together without using that word!)

Adventures in Ancient Egypt

We have been having so much fun learning about Ancient Egypt! We spent last week building background knowledge, writing facts, and making props. Here are some of the slides from our slideshows.

Here are some pages from our fact books!

We had lots of fun decorating pyramids and practicing hieroglyphics! Thanks to families who made pyramids for us!

We were so excited to have started reading Mummies in the Morning today! Here are some pictures from writing and dramatizing!

Jack and Annie in the tree house.

Ask what the director and the sound effects person do!

Life and times dramatizing- the marketplace. Carrying food to the marketplace on our heads and making trades for jewelry!

Life and times dramatizing- pyramid builders! What hard work!

Math!

We are learning about 3D shapes! 

Here is a new song that we like! 

http://youtu.be/nnJVF2aeic8

Check out some of our centers this week:

3D shape sorting

ipad 3D shape hunt!

Where is peanut? Ask how we play this group game!

Turkey numbers! We are working as a group to put the numbers in order, then flipping one over and trying to figure out which number is hiding.

Moose! We are working on identifying numbers to 20. Ask how we play this exciting group game! 

Friday Flash

Friday Flash 

November 10^th- November 14^th 2014

Focus of the Week ·      Literacy/Social Studies:  -Ancient Egypt: Mummies in the Morning -Letter Sounds -Segmenting sounds in words ·      Math: Counting out a set, number ID, 3D shapes Notes/Reminders ·      November 11th: No School (Veterans Day) ·      Parent Teacher Conferences are in December. Sign up will be online (I will let you know when it opens). We will have 11:15 Early Releases on 12/9 and 12/17 for afternoon conferences and a set of night conferences on 12/11. You will choose a 15 min slot that is convenient for you! Room Parents Thank you to Alison Lee (Ming’s mom) and Amy Brother (Ryan’s mom) for volunteering to be our room parents. I am going to give them a list of parent e-mail addresses so they can reach out to you on behalf of our class and/or the PTO. Please let me know if you would NOT like your e-mail address shared.

Class Pet Pete the Pig is excited to spend this weekend with Graeme! Please help your child document Pete’s weekend through photos and/or drawings and words in his journal. Thanks! Conversation Starters      What did you learn about Ancient Egypt?               What are hieroglyphics?         Tell me the rhymes for writing numbers 6-9               How do you play number line hopscotch?