Week 2! August 30-September 3

We are making progress in week #2!  I am so impressed with how smoothly our daily routines are going already!  This week we dived right into learning! Zero the Hero came and dropped off a treat in the shape of a zero because it was the 10th day of school!!  Zero the Hero will come on the 20th, 30th, 40th and so forth days of school all the way till the 100th day and then we will have a big celebration!  
This week we covered the following:
Literacy

• started our study on Eric Carle the author 
•  currently we are making our own Brown Bear, Brown Bear book
• read Draw Me a Star and we decoupage stars out of tissue paper to look like Eric Carle's
• read The Mixed-up Chameleon and made a book page of what animal you would want to be....
• read House for a Hermit crab and we made a book page of what you like to do during your birthday month..
•  handwriting of the letter "c" and "o"
• our word wall words for the week were red, I, a, like
• our poem for the week was the red song (ask your child to sing it to you)
• talked about a writers toolbox and what good writers would need to put in that toolbox

Math

• learned how to make the numbers 6-9
• ask you child what their favorite saying is to make a number
• made a graph of what color eyes were in our class and brown ended up having the most
• explored math manipulative

Science

• talked all week about weather
• went on a weather walk outside and reported back, drew a picture of what we observed to go in our classroom journal
• talked about the different kinds of weather and what clothes are appropriate
• completed our Weather Window Book
• acted out the weather and leaned new weather vocabulary

REMINDER: PARENTS PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE INITIALING YOU CHILDS RED FOLDER EVERYDAY