Fall Fun! 🍁

 This week we spent some time enjoying some of the special treats that fall brings. We started the week talking about apples. We read books about apples and did a couple apple related activities.  We ended the week with the best fall observation walk!  I took the kids to my favorite maple tree and with clipboards in hand, the kids spent time enjoying the leaves, studying the bark on the tree and then illustrated what they saw.  It was definitely the highlight of the our week!  Their observations and pure curiosity was just adorable!

In literacy I introduced 3 new word wall words:  I, a, see.  I am using a lot of repetition and exposure when introducing new words.  The kids are building a little book collection in their book boxes.  I am working hard to instill the importance of pointing to each word as they read.  Speaking of reading...ask your child about the difference between echo reading and choral reading.  We've been doing a lot of both lately!  

This week I read a story called, I Love School.  This story led to our writing topic, "What do you love about school?"  We brainstormed all the different aspects of  what we do at school and who we see in school.  The kids did such a fantastic job connecting the topic to their own personal thoughts.  Obviously...gym was one of the most popular choices to write about!! :)

We did a lot in math this week!  We discussed the concept of greater than, less than and equal.  In one of our activities I handed out different numbers and then had the kids find someone who's number was greater than, less than or equal.  This was great to observe how differently the kids communicate with each other as I asked them to move around the room and find a person who fit the description.  We also talked about representing numbers with "one more." This will modeled through unifix cubes, stickers and numbers.

 Enjoy the long weekend!