Today's activities
Writer's Workshop
*Review of writing True stories and how to stretch words. Children continued work on their booklets or started new stories.
Math
*Introduction to a 10 frame. Children showed several ways to build a given number - 5 could be 3+2, or 4+1, or 1+1+1+2, etc.
*Pocket problems - given 6 cubes to put in the pocket, if 2 are removed how many remain in the pocket? Children took turns being in charge of the pocket.
*Drawing shapes that are NOT circles!
Story
"There are Ghosts in the House!", a silly story about a girl who is a witch and uses her ghosts in fun ways around her house.
Literacy Centers
*Reading, "Big Things" - work on matching the spoken word to the written word, looking for the first letter iin a word to help decide if it said "airplane" or "plane".
*Creating Halloween stamp-it booklets connecting each stamp with the words "and" and "the".
*Sequencing the steps in the life cycle of a pumpkin.
Special - P.E. with Mr. D. and Music with Mrs. Keating
Volunteer - Diana Russo, AM and PM
Writer's Workshop
*Review of writing True stories and how to stretch words. Children continued work on their booklets or started new stories.
Math
*Introduction to a 10 frame. Children showed several ways to build a given number - 5 could be 3+2, or 4+1, or 1+1+1+2, etc.
*Pocket problems - given 6 cubes to put in the pocket, if 2 are removed how many remain in the pocket? Children took turns being in charge of the pocket.
*Drawing shapes that are NOT circles!
Story
"There are Ghosts in the House!", a silly story about a girl who is a witch and uses her ghosts in fun ways around her house.
Literacy Centers
*Reading, "Big Things" - work on matching the spoken word to the written word, looking for the first letter iin a word to help decide if it said "airplane" or "plane".
*Creating Halloween stamp-it booklets connecting each stamp with the words "and" and "the".
*Sequencing the steps in the life cycle of a pumpkin.
Special - P.E. with Mr. D. and Music with Mrs. Keating
Volunteer - Diana Russo, AM and PM