Hess Grape November 24-28

We worked on Science by watching a short cartoon about the solar system; we leaves about  of the planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. We worked on math this week by using blocks and playing a game to see who could get the correct answer the fastest. It was a lot of fun! We focused a lot of attention to phonics and phonemic awareness - we continued practicing out alphabet sounds and letter recognition. We completed a number of worksheet that reviewed letters a-m and began working on the letters n and p. we also played a few games such as matching the sound to the letter and rhyming words. We watched a song about rhymes to begin working with rhyming words. This is an essential skill in learning how to read! We read a book about a family of bears together to practice out reading and oral skills and to further our theme of family. We identified many of our sight words while  reading. Weve also begun practicing our speeches and our dances for the Christmas performance at the end of the month. We had a lot of fun leaning the new dance moves and song lyrics. We still need a lot of work, so we will be working hard of them over the next few weeks! This month we worked on the themes of family and thanksgiving. We made a few crafts of family portraits and we finished our week off with a thanksgiving craft to celebrate American thanksgiving on Thursday. We had a great week of learning and playing and I can wait to see all their smiling faces on Monday morning!

Hess Grape November 17-21

This week we continued working hard in our phonics books and completing many worksheets. We worked on the letters l and m this week. We learned many new vocabulary words, which we practiced with worksheets and many games. We also reviewed letters a - m so that we can practice recognizing the sound each letter makes. We played a fun game called "erase the letter" in which I would say a word and the first person to recognize the letter, erase it, and say the letter gets a point! It has been a great way and fun way to practice the alphabet letters. We focused on writing this week we the emphasis on the letter j. We learned many new j words and we practiced how to properly write a big and small j. This week for math we worked on worksheets in our math book and we practiced our numbers by writing them out and using blocks to add numbers. We had a lot of fun learning while we played with blocks! This week we continued our theme of thanksgiving by colouring a thanksgiving Turkey, and learning about thanksgiving through a short cartoon about thanksgiving! We continued working on out sight words - we practiced the ones we've previously learned and added new ones to learn. We practiced our sight words with a game and by reading a book together. Finally we have begun practicing our speeches for our upcoming Christmas party. It's very important that we practice every day so that we can do a really good job! We had a very productive and fun week and I can't wait to see my students bright and smiling faces on monday morning!

Grape class November 10-14

This week we continued practicing our writing skills with the focus on the letter "i". We added many new words to our vocabulary, such as ice cream, igloo, iguana, icing, island, and so forth. We are also building our reading skills with new sight words. We started with a lot of 2 and 3 letter words, and now we are beginning to add 4 letter words. We spent a bit of time working on our math workbooks and a lot of time focusing on our phonics workbook. We focused on the letters L and M in our workbooks and practiced learning, recognizing, spelling and saying the words for this weeks phonics. This week we worked on the theme of family. We learned many vocabulary words about family such a mommy, daddy, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa and cousins. We drew family portraits, we made a family house, we watched a short cartoon and read a book about family this week! We had a great week filled with fun and learning and I look forward to seeing my smiling students faces on Monday morning!

Grape class November 3-7

This week we continued working hard on our writing skills. We spent a lot of time practicing all the letters of the alphabet that we've learned this far. We began with tracing the letter and then practiced writing them correctly in the lines. We will be continuing to perfect our alphabet writing before moving on to writing words and sentences. It's very important that we create good writing habits now and catch any mistakes before they become habits! We worked on theme of family and finished of theme of the season fall by making a crow craft. They turned out really well and after we were finished we taped them on our cupboards in the classroom! We worked on patterns and math this week. We practiced writing numbers correctly in the lines. We worked on the letters F and H in our phonics workbook this week and we added many new word to our vocabulary beginning with F and H. We worked a lot on recognizing the sounds of each letter makes. We played a number of matching games, and race games to practice with flash cards and words! We also started a new book to practice our reading and oral skills. We are bringing to recognize and learn more and more words each week! We had a lot of fun learning this week and I can't wait to see my students bright and cheery faces on Monday morning!

Halloween week

This week we spent a lot of time preparing and practicing for our Halloween performance on Friday. We practiced every morning doing the speeches and doing the songs and dances. We really wanted to do a great job for the parents and teachers! It was a fantastic performance and the Halloween party and tricker treating was a ton of fun! Since it was the week of Halloween and this month's theme was Halloween we made a few Halloween crafts including a skeleton, which we built as a class and then taped to our wall. It was a lot of fun learning what part went where and then putting it up on the wall! It really got us into the mood of Halloween and into our song - them bones! In the afternoons we continued working hard on the alphabet sounds, writing the letter g, and working on worksheets in our phonics book. We are doing really well and progressing very quickly with our letters and sounds. We have added a number of new words to our vocabulary and learning how to spell and recognize a number of words, individual letters, and sounds. These are all very important skills for learning how to create sentence patterns! It was another fantastic week with the grape class, and I'm excited to see their smiling faces on Monday morning!