September 29th Newsletter

September 25-29, 2017 by mlkimbrell on Scribd

Apples Part II

This week we tasted 3 different types/colors of apples!

Granny Smith

Honey Crisp

Golden Delicious

Kourtney

Cayden and Evie

Jonathan and Hannah

Joshuaa

Bryan

Ellie and Tripp

Vincent

Liam

Zaire

Anna

We graphed our favorites!  Red was the winner by a long shot! :) 

When we were finished, we made a list of "describing words" for our apples!

The kids had some GREAT words!!!

Apples Part I

This week we've had so much fun with APPLES!  Take a peak at our Apple Juice/Apple Cider taste test!

Thank you to those parents who made this activity possible!  We appreciate you!!!!

Kourtney 

Cayden

Hannah

Bryan

Aaden

Vincent

Ashlyn

Fiona

Jonathan

Joshuaa and Kitanna

Which one won!?!?! :)

CWES Fall Fundraiser!!!!

Our Fall Fundraiser is well on it's way!  I hope you received your packet and are selling for CWES!

We are working on upgrading our playgrounds!  

Every little bit helps!

This is the order form to record orders.

This is the coupon you need to clip inside your planner OR put it in the money pouch in your binders so they can receive a prize from me and a prize from the office after they've sold 3 items!!!!

There are SO MANY things in the catalogs that are awesome and inexpensive!  I've been making early Christmas presents for my family!  

I hope you help support CWES!

Daily 5

Daily 5

This year your child will get to participate in Daily 5 Activities.  Every day after we share a story and write about it in our journals, the kids can choose their "Daily 5" activity!

We have:

Read to Self (with book buckets)

Word Work

Listen to Reading

Later in the year we will add:

Work on Writing

Read to Someone

We started our Daily 5 adventure by talking about building our stamina.  Our goal was to make it to 15 minutes of quiet reading time in order for us to earn the next Daily 5 component.

We watched a video of Franklin Rides a Bike that taught us to keep trying even when it doesn't work the first time.

We've learned there are 3 ways to read a book:

We talk about how each person is at a different stage.  If you aren't ready to read the words you can definitely read the pictures or retell the story (if it's a familiar one).

Here are our Word Work Tubs.  They are part of our Morning Exploration Tubs but specifically have literacy activities in them!  I put a star on the tubs they can use during Daily 5 time.

These are the morning exploration tubs (a post for that coming soon)!

The tubs with stars are the ones we can choose for Daily 5.

Here are a few examples.

Matching upper/lowercase letters.

Building sight words.

Working on fine motor, letter ID and play-doh.

Sorry the picture is upside down!

Using a magnifying glass to find letters and sight words that are hidden on the picture.

Sorry the picture is upside down!

When we start each component of Daily 5, we make a T-chart with what the kids should be doing and what I will be doing.

I will be pulling small groups to work on reading, phonics and phonemic awareness activities!

Finally, here is the video I shared via email!  I hope you like seeing our mornings!!!

Since we've met our goal of 15 minutes of stamina (we actually made it to 18!!!) we had a POPSICLE PARTY!!!!!!!!!