All About Leaves

While we're still seeing a lot of green on the trees, we made it our mission to find fall colored leaves this week.  We went on a leaf hunt behind the school, searching high and low for red, yellow, orange and brown leaves.  We were successful in finding every color, except orange.

 
Each child made a leaf book with the leaves they found on our hunt.  We created a sentence using sight words that we included on each page of our book.  The sentence frame we used was "I can see a __________ leaf."

In math, we have been exploring attributes of 2D shapes.  We observed the kinds of lines that make up the sides of different shapes.  We concluded that some lines are curved and others are straight.  We sorted shapes based on this criteria.

I finally remembered to take a couple of pictures of our poetry journals.  The poem we worked on this week was Little Miss Muffett.  Each week we read our poem together, tracking the print.  We find the letter of the week, rhyming words and sight words within our poem.  The kids then illustrate the poem in their journals.  They really enjoy reading them to each other too! 

A few weeks ago, I was asked to have an intern in my class.  Ms. Christine is a student at Coastal Carolina and is planning to pursue a career in education when she graduates.  She is assisting me in the afternoons on Mondays and Wednesdays and all day on Friday.  She is hoping to gain experience in the classroom and learn a few things in the process.  She will be with us until Christmas break.  If you see her in the classroom, feel free to welcome her and tell her hello! :)

Ms. Christine

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October Scholastic book orders went home last week.  All orders are due Friday, October 25th.  Don't forget - every order we receive earns our class a free book!  We got five new books from our September orders!!!  I'm hoping to purchase books on CD for our listening center with October's orders.  If you want to order online, our classroom code is MCPT8.

***I am listing all of our weekly sight words in the sidebar of this blog.  In addition to practicing the sight words given each week, it is extremely important that you are also reviewing all the sight words from prior weeks.

Congratulations, Taylor Nichols, our new Star Student.

Taylor is a great helper in the classroom - always willing to lend a helping hand.  She shows me that she wants to follow the rules and strives to make good choices throughout the day.  She sets a great example for her friends and has emerged as a leader in the class.  I am very pleased to honor Taylor this week!

Thanks again to Swaye's mom and Eden's mom for our large pumpkins!  We have a lot planned for our Pumpkin Unit this coming week!