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September 3, 2021

Dear Parents and Guardians,


We had such a great first few days of school! I always share a weekly update for what is to come the next week! I hope you have a fun and relaxing weekend!  In our Literacy block this upcoming week, we will be sharing a few great stories, be sure to ask your child about Buddy and Earl, and the Elephant and Piggie characters!  As we share fun stories about friendship we are getting to know each other, building our sense for stories, enjoying stories together, and developing or maintaining the love of reading we all want our kids to have!  This time of our day is called Interactive Read Aloud, and we discuss different parts of the book and listen to our friends deep thinking about the stories we read.  This is a critical piece to building the kind of classroom environment where students feel comfortable taking risks and learning about and respecting one another.  We will also be working on Community Writing this week, which is where we work together to create messages and anchor charts that help solidify our understanding of new concepts and stories.  Stay tuned for more components of our literacy block in upcoming newsletters!


This week in literacy, we will…

  • Recognize and name letters in words

  • Hear and say rhyming words

  • Read a poem titled, Dig a Little Hole, and identify rhyming words we hear in the poem

  • Read stories about friendship including My New Friend is So Fun and Are You Ready to Play Outside, by Mo Willems

  • Write a list about things we like to do with our friends during Community Writing time

  • Learn about new literacy centers, including “Browsing Boxes”, “Independent Reading” and “Poetry”

  • Isolate and produce initial and final sounds


In writing this week, we will….

  • Begin our Personal Narrative Unit

  • Write about small moments that happened in our lives

  • Organize our thoughts by planning and writing our story across the pages in our writing booklets

  • Adding detail to our work by including drawings, labels, and speech bubbles

  • Stretch out the sounds in our words so we can try and spell them



In math this week, we will…

  • Count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s

  • Recognize, count, subitize, and use popsicle sticks as tally marks

  • Recognize, describe, extend, and create number patterns

  • Organize, represent, and interpret data

  • Create our own number racks and play “Show me the number”

  • Add, subitize, and apply the commutative property with the number racks

  • Explore online math manipulatives including: unifix cubes, pattern blocks, dominoes, polydrons, and geoboards


In Social Studies this week, we will…

  • Begin our School Unit

  • We will listen to books about learning and working together, including Elizabeti’s School, A Fine, Fine School, and David’s Drawing

  • Learn about listening rules, focusing our attention, and following directions

  • Learn about being assertive



Many items will come home in your child's red folder (take home folder), please help your child become responsible for bringing their red take home folder to and from school each day.  If you have a note with a change of going home plan, please feel free to send it to school in your child's red folder.


Thanks for a great first few days!

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