Keller's Campers: Classroom News for January 30th

We are ALL Leaders!

What a WONDERFUL week! We had many fun learning experiences this week. Friday capped our week off with a great Leadership Day. We showed visitors how we use the Seven Habits daily. Thank you parents for ALL you did to help us prepare. The children were precious in the dress for success best. They enjoyed our fun 100 holiday snack and finished up with a matter experiment. Read below to see some of the other things we did this week!

Writing: Students wrote using transition words: First, Next, Then, and Last. We sequenced stories that we read and then wrote about them in the order they happened. Students wrote and illustrated their own stories by using transition words. We continue to practice sounding out EVERY letter we hear when we write, using spaces between our words, and reading our own writing to make sure it says what we want (makes sense).

Letter of the Week: I i. We discussed how I is a vowel and makes the short sound and long sound.

Phonics: We found words that begin with the b and m sounds. Students located many items in our classroom with these sounds.

Reading: We read many fun books this week. We identified the character, setting, feelings, and details in the story. Please have your child retell the stories they read with you. It is important that you child can retell and give details about the stories they read.

Snowy Day : 50th Anniversary Edition,9780670012701 We had a author study of Helen Lester's Tacky books. Students made a paper Tacky of their own and then we turned our opinions into a graph to see which book we liked the best. We know what book we liked the best and which books we liked the best. We even earned a great new song. Ask your child to sing it to you. SO MUCH FUN!!!

Science: MATTER. We know that everything is made up of matter. Students took their information further and realized that matter can be a solid, liquid, or gas. We had a fun time identifying how vapor can turn to water droplets and how liquid (water) can become a solid (ice) and back to a liquid then vapor. We finished up with some icky ublick.

Math: We did many activites with counting one-to-one correspondence to 20 and identifying, counting, and fair trading with coins. For our 100th Day Celebration we had 100 item snack count. YUMMY!! Thanks for sending in all the goodies for us to enjoy!