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Our new story is The Bridge is Up by Babs Bell. Our color is black and our shape is an octagon.  Our letters are "R" and "C."

Our current story is Old Macdonald Had a Farm by Child’s Play.  Our colors is blue and our shape is diamond.  Our letters are “U’ and “K.”

 

4/3-4/11 Spring Hoidays

 Our new story is Big Red Barn by Margaret Brown.  Our new color is blue and our shape is a diamond.  Our letters are "U" and "K."

 

 

·     Wednesday, March 10, 2010 – Early release day

 

· Our next story is Dear Zoo written by Rod Cambell. This is an interactive story in lift-the-flap, board-book format where students can lift the flaps in search of the ideal pet. Students find a variety of zoo animals before finding the perfect pet.  Our next shape is heart.  the color is purple.  Our letters are "Z," "A," and "E."

Welcome back!

We will introduce our next unit on winter weather, clothing for the seasons, and whole-part concepts with the story Snowballs written by Lois Ehlert.  It is a fun and engaging story with wonderful illustrations that shows a family made with snowballs and “good stuff” that can be found around the house.    Our three letters that we will focus on this month are “J,” “H,” and “W.”  Our color is white and our shape is a rectangle.

January 18  Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, No school

January 25-29  Conference Week / Early Release  ( I will hold conferences upon request)

 

 
  

Tuesday November 3rd:  Student Holiday/ Teacher In-Service Day
Friday November 6th:  Picture Re-Take Day
Monday November 23rd-Friday November 27th:  No school/Thanksgiving Holiday Week

Our new story is:

 

 

 

This is a wonderful story about the life cycle of the caterpillar and its amazing journey from a little egg to a beautiful butterfly. The book is full of colorful illustrations.  It also reinforces healthy eating, days of the week, and counting. The new color is orange, the letter is “D,” and  oval is our new shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had such fun creating and making the big green monster disappear! 

 The next two weeks we will be reading Skeleton Hiccups  by Margery Cuyler. Poor Skeleton wakes up with the "hic, hic, hic" hiccups. His friend, Ghost, tells Skeleton various ways on how to stop the hiccups. This is an adorable book with fun illustrations. We are currently learning about the letter "X".

 

 

Or next story is Go Away, Big Green Monster!, by Ed Emberley.  This is an adorable die-cut book that lets children gradually create a monster and then make him disappear.  Our color this month is “green.”  Our shape is a triangle.  We are currently working on the  letter “p.”

 

Fall Festival- The fall festival has been rescheduled to Friday, October 9th from 6-9 pm.

  

    

 

What a great start to the 2009-2010 school year. Welcome to our classroom blog! This blog will be the primary means of relaying information such as curriculum information, classroom newsletters, and upcoming events. Updates of the blog will be posted every other week. 

 

 

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The books that we will be reading next are Here Are Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault and My Five Senses by Aliki.

 

 

 

Dates To Remeber

     

 

Open House
September 3, 2009
6:00 pm

Labor Day Holiday
NO SCHOOL
September 7, 2009

Fall Festival
September 25, 2009