Our first week

     

   I truly had a wonderful first week at school with your children. They are so precious and we have had so much fun!  These are the sweetest children.  As you can tell from the pictures, we love to be outside. However, we do stay inside a lot too and have learned so many new things. 
A few highlights from last week:                                                            

Book of the Week (BOTW) - You Are Mine by Max Lucado - read it several times, discussed the themes of God being our maker and stuff not making us happy, vocabulary words within the text, comprehension questions                                          . 

Reading - Orientation to our phonics curriculum, "Fundations", rhyming, writing first and last name, the letter "t", Handwriting without tears
Math -Numbers 1-5, making patterns, pictographs
Centers - Self portrait, Who Am I sheet for class book, playdoh, assessments
Bible & Habits - PEARL (Polite, Example, Attitude, Respect, Listen)

Next Week:
Book of the week - The Story of Creation by Jane Ray
Reading - Letters t, b, f - letter formation (writing), sounds, word & sentence awareness, story time (comprehension, vocabulary). Enrichment - Morning message (reading words, sentences)
Writing name - letter formation, spacing, Phonemic awareness - rhyming, sentence structure
Math - Numbers 1-9 (writing too), graphs, AB patterns, 1:1 correspondence, calendar activities
Centers - Finish making class book, watercolor Creation book, will finish assessing each child during this time.
Bible - Genesis 1:1, 1:5 Creation- day 1 & use Jesus Storybook Bible
Habits - Continue PEARL rules. We will focus on one letter each day of PEARL rules.  We will continue this next week and review them all.

**Home visits the next 2 weeks. Let me know asap if the time/date does not work for you. I can reschedule. Visits 20-30 minutes

• Tuesday, August 19 - 1:30 - Avery
• Tuesday, August 19 - 2:30 - Zane
• Wednesday, August 20- 1:30 - Mary Grace
• Wednesday, August 20 - 2:30- Evie
• Thursday, August 21 - 1:30 - Phoebe
• Wednesday, August 27 - 12:30 - Sawyer
• Wednesday, August 27 - 2:00 - Jack
• Thursday, August 28 - 1:30 - Tommy

**Guest reader - Henry Massie - Thursday (8:30 ?)
Happy helpers - Monday - Phoebe, Tuesday - Sawyer, Wednesday - Tommy, Thursday - Zane
Happy helpers can bring one item for show and tell.
Mrs. Lawrence