This Week at School

Today was our last day with Mrs. Fillmore.. As happy as we are to have Mrs. Nelson back on Monday, we are sad to see Mrs. Fillmore go. She has been great! Helping us with our learning and coming up with some fun learning activities.

Literacy - We have learned a few new letters and letter blends this week, including Yy, oo, Xx, and ch. Be sure to ask me what the sounds and actions are for these letters! We are almost all done learning the letters and will be moving into more challenging work like reading, sight word reading and writing, and sentence writing.

Math - This week our focus has been numbers! We have done a few different including
-putting together number puzzles
-ordering numbers - forwards and backward
-determining what numbers come before and after a given number
-skip counting
-greater

Social Studies - We learned all about FEAR this week. We described fear as:
-scared
-loud
-quiet
-dark
-noises
Of course we drew a memory of a time we were scared and described what it looks and sounds like. Next week we will develop strategies for when we feel scared or fearful before moving on to the last emotion, disgust.

Science - We worked with colors in many different ways. We learned that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. To make secondary colors, you combine two primary colors together. The secondary colors are purple, green, orange. We got to to actually make and work with all these colors through the use of crayons, pencil crayons, pastels. Today, we learned that colors come from nature like plants. We got to use these natural material to create a rainbow!

On Wednesday we had library and reading buddies. Mrs. Nelson has also come in a few times to help out and visit before she comes back full time on Monday!


Reminders:
-No school tomorrow!
-Next week is conferences. Please book with your teacher online, we would love to see you all and converse with how your child is doing and goals for the year. They are Thursday evening and Friday during the day, next week.
-Library books are due Monday - if a library book has not come home in a while, please check blue home folder for a library notice. Try to return books as soon as possible to avoid possible charges and to be able to take a new book out.
-December book orders are due Tuesday
-If you have clothing that you do not wear or use anymore, the school Parent Council is taking clothing donations for the Kidney Foundation