Dear Families,
This week we have been learning all about the Little Red Hen and her helpers. We began by reading the Big Book The Little Red Hen. We then talked about how we could help out in our classroom and in our homes. That translated into a Predictable Chart titled, “I will help...”. We have many great ambitious helpers in our classroom, so be sure to ask your child what they will do to help either at home or at school. We read several different versions of the Little Red Hen, including The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza, With Love from the Little Red Hen, and Cook-A-Doodle-Do! Thursday, we acted out the story with character tags and several actors and actresses. The props for this story will go into our Drama Work Station so the children can retell it over and over.
We also discussed ways that we can help our planet and a wonderful opportunity was presented to us by Miss Rude’s 2nd grade class. They got a large recycling dumpster for our building that can accept paper (magazines, cardboard, newspaper) plastic (labeled 1&2) and cans. We have three large boxes in our classroom donated by Sophia’s family that we are decorating to collect these things in our classrooms. If you have any of these materials, please feel free to send them in daily with your child, but please make sure they are rinsed out and cleaned beforehand--we don’t want to attract any bugs! :)
Our compost is coming along as well. We are still adding materials to it, so any “green” or “organic matter” that you have at home can be sent in. The children are taking turns at recess turning the compost and adding their contributions from home. Think how much less garbage you would have at home if you sent in all your cans, plastic, paper, and composting materials! I know that at my house we take the garbage out much less frequently! :)
I wish that you could have seen our classroom on Thursday during Writer’s Workshop! It was AMAZING! There were children everywhere and to the passerby it could have looked like chaos! There were children borrowing “Rainbow Words” from the word wall, stapling books, discovering the new lined paper that I put out and surveys everywhere about the election and who the children voted for! I took several pictures and will post them on both of the blogs below for you to see. EVERY child in this room was writing about something and it was so good to see the end results! I hope that you too are seeing progress in your child’s writing at home, because we are surely seeing it here!
Our classroom election on Tuesday was wonderful! We each took turns voting with secret ballots. The children were asked to vote for their favorite flavor of ice cream--Vanilla emerged as our winner with a strong lead over chocolate early on in the voting process. There is a picture of the graph on the blogs as well.
Just a few other tidbits to share:
Sight word cards for the “green rainbow words” came home Monday with the homework, please practice them daily if possible (blue and purple were also sent home again for a reminder). When using these with your child, be sure to allow them to manipulate the words from all three colors into sentences so that they can see that these words can be used for writing.
I have also opened our Parent Volunteer Library. This is a collection of books about various parenting topics that are available for checkout in our classroom. They will be located by the Parent Volunteer table. Please feel free to come in anytime and check them out! I have read most of them and can point you in the right direction so you can learn more about topics concerning your child and their development.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Kristen Poindexter
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