It's October!

The time is really passing quickly in Room 112.
If you haven't already heard, the children came in to the classroom today to find that there were new seat assignments.
Instead of the usual color coded tables, this month's tables have "new names". Ask your child to tell you what table they are sitting at using the October name. Can they tell you who their new table mates are?
For the letter R we are trying to "remember" the names of our peers. We also have been singing the Name Game. Ask your child to sing it to you using your first name and their first name. It's fun and silly!

In today's folder there was an October Reading Sheet. Reading each day is part of the District's Reading Initiative, so please try to be consistent and conscientious with this reading assignment. Reading together with your child will not only serve as a reading role model, but it will also help establish good reading practices.

We will be discussing rhyme and rhyming words, so reading Mother Goose rhymes and some books that have lots of rhyming words is a good place to begin.

There was also a paper sent home titled I Can Count. This was both a Reading and Math activity. Your child should practice writing the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. For an additional activity, try to extend the poem, by adding your own number rhymes, for example:

One one one one
I can lay down in the sun

Two two two two
I can hear a cow say moo
etc etc

Challenge:
Can you go past 4 and try some rhyme with
Five five five five
I can..................

Next week is another short week (no school on Thursday, Oct. 9th) so I will use next week as a review of the letters B, M and R
as well as the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4.

I will give you Halloween party updates in a future blog as well as some School activities that will be occurring this month.

Stay tuned.