Hello, amazing K/1 parents!!! I hope you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend! We had such a fantastic week in The Hive and I am so proud of our Busy Bees! They worked their little hearts outs! The week started with our first Chapel session led by Mrs. Warner. They learned the behavior expectations of Chapel, sang beautiful and fun songs, and heard a special message about needs versus wants.

The students have been working on Read-to-Someone in Daily 5 and even practiced this with our Journeys reading text!

We have been working on themes of friendship and community this month and will continue this throughout September. A great resource we have been using is the "Tucker Turtle" story. "Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think" is a great tool for kiddos when they feel overwhelmed with a social situation and need to take time to think about a smart choice to make. This is a link that will take you to the PowerPoint slide that was presented in class, so that you can continue the conversation at home if you would like.

csefel.vanderbilt.edu/scriptedstories/tuckerturtle.ppt

Picture Day is coming up this Tuesday!!! Please return your form/payment if you plan on ordering pictures.

 

   We broke out the watercolor sets this week and had a very process-based art time in which the students chose what to paint. Ah, something about those pretty paint palettes makes me so giddy!!!

We have a new author study coming up! We will will be highlighting the works of Kevin Henkes!!!

Our Reading Focus Wall for this week from Journeys:

Sight words: do, find, funny, sing, no, they. 

Spelling: log, hot, dot, ox, top, lot. 

Phonics: short "o"(as in ox), "l" and "x"!

 

In science this week we examined our fingerprints and we continue to learn about how unique we are! We learned about our hair, eyes, and ears. This week we will be focusing in on our Five Senses! 

 

 

We worked with manipulatives to solve math problems this week...

Our Bible verse this week:

Something that is coming up in October is our Grandparents Day here at Sonshine! I wanted to let you know the date: Friday, October 15th, so all the grandparents can plan ahead to be there! More details to come!!! (: