Oct. 25

 Hello everyone!

We started our day by switching out the books in our book boxes. We had a quick class meeting to share some things from our weekend. We filled in our calendar and practiced counting to 100 by 1s and 10s. 

Next, we had music. Mr. Wiens was away today, so we had a guest teacher that taught us how to use chopsticks as mini drumsticks! We learned some new songs and practiced playing them on our new drumsticks. 

We had a new star student today and completed our interview of them before ate snack. After recess, we worked on our Star Student pages. We were working so hard to do our best that we needed a little extra time after lunch to complete our pages. 

Then, we reviewed the sounds of our first letter set. We talked about 2 new words - onset and rime. The onset is the first sound in a word (everything before the vowel). The rime is the rest of the word (from the vowel onward. For example: in the word sat, /s/ is the onset, /at/ is the rime. We practiced breaking some 3 letter words into their onset and rime. Then, we read a poem together that had lots of words that had the same rime -at. We will focus on this poem a little more tomorrow and learn more about the -at word family.

In math, we worked on the number 9. We practiced the number and word 9 in our printing books. We showed 9 on a ten frame, and then chose 1 other way to show 9. 

After our second recess we completed our last step of our Braille practice. We got to bring them home today! Then, we looked at the next sense from our 5 senses book - smell! We filled in a sentence in our book and brainstormed things that have a strong smell. We drew some pictures in our book of things that we like to smell. 

During P.E. we practiced using scoops and bean bags to toss in a forward direction. We took turns tossing our beanbag into a hula hoop for aiming practice.

Reminders:

Costume Day Friday

·       Students are permitted to wear their costume

·       All costume props must be left AT HOME including masks, wands, swords etc.  All students will still be required to wear their Covid-19 mask.

·       The school is closed on the weekend so if any costume items are forgotten at school they will not be accessible until Halloween is over.

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne