Parents,
Last week, we really enjoyed studying about leaves! The AM class went on a leaf walk with our 4th grade peer buddies (the pm class went on a leaf walk as well, but without peer buddies J). They had to pick 10 different leaves and we pressed those leaves in the classroom. We will use them for an art project next week. This week we will continue learning about fall and also learning about Thanksgiving. We will be discussing holiday traditions including what we eat, who we spend our holiday with and why spending time with those we love is important. We will be talking about the importance of caring for our friends/community and treating one another with care, respect, compassion and gratitude. We will be continuing to read our informational leaf books and reading some books about Thanksgiving including The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. In small groups, students will be sequencing the story There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and they will be creating a number museum for the number two. We will be starting our math talks this week. Math talks are a way for students to understand numbers in a deeper way that involves communication and discourse. Students are encouraged to talk out the way they solve problems and prove their answer. In pre-school, this looks like students showing different ways to create a number through visual representation, 10-frames, the written numeral and pictures. After we have participated in our math talk as a whole group, students are encouraged to create the number we have studied using objects like counting cubes. They create the number and verbally defend how they made that number and add it to a class number museum where students can look at their creation but not touch (just like a REAL museum). This type of teaching is a great way for students to get hands on experience with numbers in a developmentally appropriate way that they can remember. We will be starting the letter of the week this week. The first letter we will study is L. Please send in a small picture of something that begins with L by Thursday. Remember, we do our letter in the way that they are introduced by our Handwriting curriculum (Hand Writing without Tears). This helps students learn to write each letter in a developmentally appropriate way. Thanks to all of you who came to parent teacher conferences. It was wonderful to talk to you about your children! Thanks! Mandi Heiser [email protected]
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AuthorMandi Heiser is a Preschool teacher at William H. Ray Elementary in Hyde Park. Categories |