Weekly Greetings!
Even though we started last week off with a number of students absent, we finished strong and had a new addition to our classroom on Friday. We now have 5 students in each grade level making a total of 15 in our class.
Earlier in the week, I snapped a picture of the Kindergarten working with a handwriting program that helps them to understand that letters are made up of long and short straight lines, in addition to large and small curves. They work out the letters introduced using special wood pieces, and then draw the letters on a small chalk board before using pencils and paper. It is a hands
-on way to practice and learn the alphabet.
The whole class has been learning a phonics program which includes music and movement, that is call "Zoo Phonics". All the letters have animal characters, and on Thursday we had an animal hunt to match the special characters to the capital letter cards.
A real highlight on Friday was the time spent doing native dancing in the gym. The teens did a wonderful job leading the group, and everyone fully participated!
This week in reading, we will continue to press on with the concepts listed in the supplemental letter attached to your child's homework sent home on Monday. In Science, we will begin to discuss characteristics of spiders as they seem to mix in well with Halloween activities.
I hope you have an awesome week!
Kind Regards,
Julie Brown
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