As September comes to a close I am impressed with how the class is settled into school.  This week we "opened" our class restaurant.  The class created 2 menus, The Raptor Restaurant and The Owl Cafe.  They are finding meaningful was to practice writing through creating the menus and by using the clip boards to write down the "customers" orders.  This allows me to do an authentic assessment of their writing skills.

In math we have been working with counting and number identification.  Our morning meeting gives them a chance to practice counting, identify patterns, and identify coins and learn their value.

You can support these skills by doing things such as giving your child the job to check items off of a grocery shopping list, look for patterns in sounds and pictures.  Make it fun and meaningful and you will see their minds grow in leaps and bounds.

We have a special helper each day.  The helper is the line leader for the day and has a special seat for our morning meeting.  The best part of being the helper is picking the stories for story time.  Beginning this week, the helper can chose to bring one or two books from home on the day they are the helper.  The schedule for helpers is as follows:  Oct. 4 - Henry, Oct. 5 - Jenna, Oct. 6 - Will, Oct. 7 - Hayden, Oct. 10 - Harris, Oct. 11 - Miles.

Please continue checking the Home Folder daily for personal notes and important reminders.
Have a great weekend.  See you Tuesday.

The wise owls are busy learning about owls, exploring patterns, and playing with rhyming words.  Currently our favorite book is Tiki Tiki Tembo.  Everyone recited the owl poem this week.  Look for a new poem in the folder on Monday.  Please let me know if you would like to volunteer during Fall Festival.  

We had a great time today with Emily's Birders, our big buddies.  We had song and movement time together.  The Birders taught the Wise Owls how to do the Loop the Loop.  

We just finished our first full week of school and we are all settling into the routine.  We will now be adding a weekly activity with Ruth Ann's Good Lookers class.  Every Thursday morning we combine our classes for an activity.  Last week we listened to an audio of Sounds Around the House.  We used our sense of hearing to identify the sounds.  We are now working on recording Sounds Around Our School.  Ruth Ann and I are going to tie this to a study of The 5 Senses.


Look for upcoming photos of what's happening in our classroom and around the school.