Spiders and Pumpkins Theme

We had a short but busy week! Here are the important things we learned...

We explored books and activities about spiders and pumpkins to get ready for Halloween!  Some of our activities during centers included building power words, playing CVC games, learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin, and finding pumpkin power words around our classroom. 

In Phonics, we learned the letters and sounds for Hh, Rr, and Ll. We practiced writing and reading the power words "look" (heart word) and "and". We blended and segmented sounds and worked on beginning and ending sounds.

During Writing, we listened to and discussed good writing, generated ideas and wrote about ourselves, practiced telling our stories orally, and worked on writing from left to right.  We also started using our word wall and sound wall to help us write power words.  

We continued our numbers unit in Math by comparing numbers to ten.  We will wrap this unit up in the coming days! Please keep writing numbers at home with your child. 

In Reading, we have been working on making text to text and text to self connections.  We are working on pointing to words as we read familiar poems and songs.  Our new vocabulary words that we learned include greet, excited, lonely, and invite. 

We spent time with the Ladue Fire Department and talked about ways to be safe at home! Ask your child to tell you all about it. 

We visited our new areas in the Play Lab! This quarter's themes include Farmer's Market, Animal Shelter, Community Helpers Theater, Space Station, Pizza Parlor, Nursery, Voting Booth, and Sink or Float center in the Science Lab!

Check out this quarter's Play Lab themes HERE! 

Play Lab pics are found here. 

Dear Parents,

We’re excited to share our upcoming PreventEd lessons for the K-4 grade levels that focus on building strong social and emotional skills. Each grade will explore important themes through engaging activities:

• Kindergarten: Winning Friendships – Building positive friendships with kindness, sharing, and problem-solving.
• 1st Grade: Caring 4 Classmates – Developing self-respect, embracing differences, and supporting others with kindness.
• 2nd Grade: Friendship Rules – Learning key friendship principles: inclusion, giving chances, accepting differences, and enjoying time together.
• 3rd Grade: Building You, Building Me – Exploring how words and actions impact friendships, and how to work well with others.
• 4th Grade: Taking Charge of Me I – Focusing on self-awareness, goal-setting, and personal responsibility for actions.

These lessons will help children navigate social relationships, foster empathy, and encourage positive behaviors at school and at home.

Thank you for your support!

Looking ahead...

Red Ribbon Week 10/26-10/30

Halloween Parade and Party 10/30 

Phonics

Guided Math

Filling in our Student Response Journal- making a connection to our book, "Say Hello"

Centers including Guided Reading

Playground fun 

Visit from the fire department

Making first aid kits

Fire Safety Week

                                                 

We had a busy week wrapping up our Community Helpers unit and learning about Fire Safety! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our literacy centers this week included independent reading, reading group with me! We wrote power words at Word Work center, wrote about fire safety at Write the Room center, wrote the power words "I can see at Theme center, played CVC games at ABC center, and wrote power words.

During our reading lessons this week, we learned new vocabulary words that we read in our mentor texts (snatch, comfort, welcome, and furious).  We made text to self connections with the story When Sophie Gets Angry...Really, Really Angry. We practiced reading power words, learned a new poem, Just Three, and added it to our poem books. 

We worked on the letters and sounds for Gg, Kk, and Oo during Phonics. We read and wrote the power word "is" and the heart word "was". We identified words and pictures that began with the /g/, /k/, and /o/ sounds and blended sounds to read words.  Please continue to work with your child at home on stretching out words, tapping out the sounds they hear on their fingers (they can show you how), and then writing what the hear. 

In Writing, we used the story Round is a Tortilla to help us generate ideas for our writing. We wrote lists of various objects of different shapes. We worked on making sure our writing went from left to right and again, worked on tapping out and recording the sounds we hear in each word. Ask your child to tell you what they wrote about this week! 

We worked on comparing numbers to ten during Math.  We compared using the words greater than, less than, more than, and equal to. 

 We had our first Reed Family time! Every child at Reed is assigned to a family; a group of two kids from each grade level and one-two Reed parents (teachers and staff). We get together each month to complete fun activities and get to know others in the building.

We continued learning about being a scientist during Science.  We explored the five senses using science tools. More to come! 

Looking ahead...

Parent Teacher Conferences 10.20 and 10/21

Early Release Day 10/22

No School 10/23

Red Ribbon Week 10/26-10/30

Halloween Parade and Party 10/30

Phonics

Centers

Math

Writing

Friends sharing their writing

Choice Time fun

We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin and created a poster for the Play Lab

We also made Pet Adoption pictures to decorate the Q2 Play Lab

Shared Reading the poem, Just Three, from our Poetry Book

`Interactive Writing- practicing using is, at and the. 

Our Mystery Reader this week was August's mom. She read us a childhood favorite!