Friday, November 7, 2025

All About Spiders

                                                                     

Another short but busy week in KS! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included reading and writing CVC words, sequencing and reading The Itsy Bitsy Spider, playing CVC games, and writing the power words "I see". 

During Phonics, we worked on our last few letters/sounds that we haven't learned yet: Qq and Uu.  We learned two new power words: you and of.  We continued stretching out sounds and segmenting words, isolating beginning and ending sounds, and reading and writing power words.  You can find the words we are working on on the tab above! 

 In Reading, we read the story Whistle for Willie by Exra Jack Keats and worked on retelling to deepen our understanding, making text-to-self connections, talked about patterns in rhyming stories and practiced rhyming words, and looked at illustrations and talked about their importance. We also learned new vocabulary words: proud, determined, whirl, and scramble.

During Writing, we practiced hearing and discussing a story. We practiced stretching out words and writing each sound that we hear.  We added a few more words to our word/sound wall. You can find the power words that we are learning by clicking on the tab above. 

We wrapped up working on comparing numbers to 10 in Math using the vocabulary more than, less than, fewer than, and equal to.  We started our new pilot program and began to talk about teen numbers. More to come! 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels mad. We practiced looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation. Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel mad. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling mad.

Our Social Studies lesson this week focused on oceans, countries, borders, and looking at the globe to find where we live in the United States. We will continue to learn about other countries in the coming weeks as well how families live around the world. 

Looking ahead...

Veteran's Day Assembly 11/11 WEAR RED WHITE AND BLUE
Thanksgiving Break 11/26-11/28
Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/12

Partner reading







Reading lesson- sharing details about our read aloud- Whistle for Willie

Writing



Social Studies




Choice time


Phonics

Writing in our Student Response Journals for Reading- "What was your favorite part of "Whistle for Willie"






Guided Reading groups have begun!




Centers










We started our first math program pilot- building teen numbers
Learning about Veterans Day from our 4H buddies














Independent Reading- we got to read from the Big Books












More centers/Guided Reading grouops



Math lessons






Interactive Writing






Friday's Centers





Writing



Our Mystery Reader this week was Camille's Dad who not only read a book to us but also played the bassoon for us! It was so incredible! The kiddos and I all loved it!








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