Getting Ready to Read, Read, Read!

Today each student was given the DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) by Mrs. Daily. Each child was individually tested to identify their reading level. I will share your child's level and more information at our conference next week.  I will also be sending home leveled readers so your child can read, read, read!  The more opportunities a child is given to read, the better readers they will become!

Pumpkin Math!

We have been working on recognizing and sequencing numbers 1-10. 

We have had fun ordering numbered pumpkins. We also learned a Halloween pumpkin poem that  teaches us ordinal numbers. When the pumpkins are placed in order, we use ordinal numbers to tell their position.      

 We love to see how fast we can get the numbers in the right order!

 

Next,  we get to see the pumpkin faces !

 

 And then the pumpkins DANCE, which is the best of all!

Teachers Attend Dr. Jean Workshop

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Can't wait to get back to class to try out more of Dr. Jean's fun learning ideas! Dr. Jean teaches ways to engage students in learning by engaging children physically and mentally. She always has great ideas for teaching through songs, dances and  other fun activities.  "The more senses you activate, the more likely the message  will get to the brain and stay there!", she says. 

The Star in the Apple!

Today we read the story " The Star in the Apple". It was about a little boy that was looking for a little red house, with a chimney on top, with no windows and no doors. He discovered that it was an apple that he was looking for.  When his mom sliced the apple in half (horizontally) there was a star inside!We then discussed if the story was real or make believe.  We were excited to discover that there really was a star in the apple! Thanks to the boys and girls that brought an apple from home.  We loved experimenting with our apples to discover the star inside.  The apple halves also were a yummy treat!

Aa is for Apple Reading!

This week we learned our first vowel "Aa"!  We learned that every word has to have a vowel. Vowels are the "glue" that hold a word together.  We can't have a word without a vowel. Now we can read by blending!  Blending or sounding out words  is smoothly ‘hooking the sounds of a word together’ to hear the word. When we can hear that word and identify it,we are READING!  We had fun blending words with our Apples! Ask your child to "read their apple" to you tonight! They are amazing!

                                                             We can read!

Tt is for Trick or Treating!

 Halloween is getting near and we are SO excited!  Our calendar tells us that we have 18 more days to get our costume ready, but we had some Trick or Treating fun today with sight words! We each created a Trick or Treating Tt bag to hold our sight words.  We then had a chance to earn a treat for each word we could read!  Then we were able to decorate a mini-pumpkin!  Thank you Elijah's mom, Mrs. Santana, for sending those for us! We love getting excited about Halloween!

Future Firefighters!

 We loved having the firefighters visit our school on Thursday!  They showed us all of their cool equipment as well as their really cool firetruck.  They also taught us how to be safe in case our house or ourselves were to ever catch on fire! Thank you Lockhart Fire Department for an exciting visit!