We talked and read about community helpers this week. One of our favorite literary texts was Officer Buckle and Gloria. We read informational books about police officers, firefighters, and postal workers.
In Reader's Workshop, we learned how to use sticky notes to mark things to share with our EEKK (Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee) partner. We marked a favorite part, something cool, something we learned or a connection to something that happened to us. Sticky notes help us to remember what we found during independent reading.
In math we are working on the tricky concept of counting on. We played a game in which we put some counters in a cup and some on the side. The challenge was to find out how many in all without recounting. So if there were 5 counters in the cup and 2 on the side, we started counting at 5 to find the total. You can practice at home with toys. Say to your child, if there are 4 cars parked in the garage and 3 outside of the garage, how many are there in all?
Our popcorn word this week was you. Our popcorn words include I, is, the, you, yes, no, see, and a. Keep looking for the words in the reading you do. You can play games like Go Fish or Memory by writing the words on index cards. Make sure to make two sets! We talked about the letter E and the short sound it makes like in elbow. Your child can make an E collage by finding E and e in magazines and cutting them out to glue onto construction paper.
Progress reports will go out Friday, October 25. I am sending an email out to ask for goodies for our Halloween Party. It will be held on October 31 at 2:00. You are welcome to join us! I would love the help setting up and cleaning up our little feast!
