Week 12

It was great to get the chance to talk with so many of you at conferences and our Parent Visitation Day. I hope that the costume making event was a memorable learning experience for your child. They will get a chance to wear these at our Thanksgiving feast. Amy Grill sent out the details for this party. All are welcome to attend, (but please don't feel obligated).
Our letters this week were /x/ and /y/ and the newest sight words introduced were 'we' and 'are'. In math we have finished up with teen numbers. The children put their skills to use in a few math centers about the teens. Next, we will be working with numbers to 100. 
We have been spending time reading about the first Thanksgiving and some of the different Native American groups that lived in America. We used this time to introduce beginning map skills. 
Pictures from our week are below. First you will see the pictures from the math center activities. The children rotate through the centers so that they all get a turn at each game. 

Myla and Andrew are searching for numbers using a magnifying glass.
They record the numbers they found, then fill in the ten frame.

Clara and Dominic are playing the Beanbag Toss Game.

Lillie and Bronte' are playing math games on the computer.

Ella and Kaeden are playing a  number counting game called Bump.

Chris and Mina are searching for hidden counting cards around the classroom.

Emma and Carson are ordering numbers.

One way we practice learning new letters is to write them on dry erase boards. This week,  we went on a search to find words in the classroom that contain x's and y's.

Here, Myla is completing the map we used as we learned about different groups of Native Americans.