During Reading Workshop we...

• Looked at the cover, title, and pictures and thought - "how do the pages go together."
• Used our fingers to search out everything on the page.
• Looked for patterns in the pictures and words.
• Learned about how books are organized in our classroom library.
• Started practicing sight words - everyone has received his/her own sight word ring.

Shared reading is when the whole class reads together. Quite often, the reading is a familiar Nursery Rhyme or poem, or memorable text. We read the same piece each day, and by the end of the week the students are reading it on their own!  Our shared reading this week was Jack and Jill.  We found sight words in the nursery rhyme.  A copy of it should be in your child's Holmes School folder.  Feel free to practice!


During Writing Workshop we...

• Learned that we are all storytellers!
• We practiced telling stories and then putting our stories on paper.
• Learned that writers think of a story, draw their story, and add words or labels.
• When we're done we can...add to the picture, add to the words, start a new story!
• Chanted letter names, sounds, and pictures to match the sounds. 

During Math Workshop we...

• Used the math racks to build numbers.
• Sorted objects based on a rule - color, size, shape, type.
• Practiced our math centers routine.
• Used Dreambox in the computer lab!

Science/Social Studies - We learned about single-stream recycling.  We practiced checking the recycling chart to see what we can and cannot recycle after snack. 
We continued to practice our social skills - when someone is talking we listen with our "voice quiet, body still, eyes watching, ears listening."  Everyone has a body bubble (personal space) and we need to remember not to "pop" one another's bubbles. 


REMINDERS:
Walk-a-Thon• Children should wear blue and/or white or Holmes clothes on Friday, 9/26 for the walk-a-thon.
• We will be participating in the walk-a-thon at 12:20.
• The goal is to raise $10 child- please send in your envelopes