Thinking and Learning Time Week Of Sept 23

 This week we continue our name work focusing on writing and building our own names. When you see your child's work come home please encourage him or her to practice tracing their names. It's so tricky to start with and upper case and write the rest lower case! It takes practice and help from home is much appreciated!

After building and writing their own names Fawn Friends worked on organizing friend's names under the letters of the alphabet. It is tricky because these learners have to first organize the strips in alphabetical order and then look closely at friends names in order to graph and sort them.

Scientists worked to sequence the life cycle of a sunflower. Look for your child's lifecycle to come home this week!

 After recording the life cycle these friends did more observation work around names. Children looked closely at pictures of their friends, drew the picture and wrote their names in order to create a pattern book. Ask your child to read this book to you at home. Help remind him or her how it goes by reading the first page together!

Readers and writers worked to create another pattern book all about September. They first traced the words "I see..." and tried to read by thinking about what the book might say as they check the picture on the page. I am keeping these books as your learner will use them to read during Reader's Workshop.

More Letter Work