September 8-12

Monday:​​

 

Reading:

• Introduced to dictation

• Introduced to the Secret Stories Book and Posters

• Listened to the story of the Letter A - Letter A is a vowel and all vowels are superheroes in disguise.  When a vowel because a superhero, it says its name.  When the letter A is in her lazy disguise, it sits around all day and eats apples.  (It says its short name.)

• Introduced to a new sight word, the

• Read through our first emergent reader, The Farm

• Introduced to our reading finger (monster finger). We use our reading fingers to point to the words as we read them.

• Introduced to Reading Stations - Read to Self, Listen to Reading, & Word Work

• Worked on our pencil grip

• Gathered information about apples from songs, videos and books

• Listened to the story, Ten Apples Up On Top

 

Math:

• Played the counting game, Gotcha

• Created a picture of our head with ten apples piled on top of it

 

Religion:

• Discuss Saint Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary, watched a short video about her life, and colored her picture in our saint book.  Her special feast day is today, September 8th.

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Tuesday:​

Reading:

• Reviewed the story 10 Apples Up On Top

• Listened to the story of the Letter E - Letter E is a vowel and all vowels are superheroes in disguise.  When a vowel because a superhero, it says its name.  When the letter e is in his lazy disguise,, she is a little old lady who can’t hear.  She always cups her hand around her ear and says Ehhh.

• Gathered information about apples from songs, videos and books

• Listened to the stories, Apples and From Blossom to Fruit

• Explored the life cycle of an apple

• Created an apple life cycle

 

Math:

• Calendar

• Introduced to the iPads - procedures and rules

• Introduced to standardized testing procedures on the iPads.  First Ms. Torborg should us the different kinds of questions and how to move and click on the answers.  Then we practiced for ourself.

• Went on a number hunt - Looking for items in our classroom that have numbers on it.  We had to make sure to find numbers not letters.  After looking around for a bit, we created a list of the different things/places we found numbers.

 

Religion:

• Reviewed the story of the Good Shepherd 

• Listened to the story of the Lost Sheep

• Watched Marcam video about the Lost Sheep

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Wednesday:​

• Shared our “Treasure”Boxes”

 

Reading:

• Listened to the story of the Letter I - Letter I is a vowel and all vowels are superheroes in disguise.  When a vowel because a superhero, it says its name.  When the letter i is in his lazy disguise, he bends to the side, puts his fingers next to his mouth and says “ihhh”.

• Listened to a story about Apples

• Identified different facts about apples.

• Took a NWEA screening reading assessment.  It was like practicing to take our standardized reading test. We had to do things like identify letters and sounds, find matching sounds, and match capital and lowercase letters.

 

Math:

• Calendar

• Gathered data from our apples.  We drew a picture, measured, weighted, and checked the buoyancy of the apples we brought from home. 

 

Religion:

• Reviewed the story of the Good Shepherd 

• We also talked about our Guardian Angel who is always with us to protect us. 

• Listened to the Story I’m Not Scared…I’m Prepared - We learned what to do is a wolf or dangerous someone enters our building.  We will “play” Sheep, Shepherd and Wolf.  We practiced finding “safe” spots in our classroom and grabbing something to throw if needed.  

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Thursday:​

Reading:

• Listened to the Secret Story of the letter O. Letter O is a vowel and all vowels are superheroes in disguise.  When a vowel because a superhero, it says its name.  When the letter o is in his lazy disguise, he is always at the doctor.  He is worried about germs and doesn’t want the stick the doctor uses to touch his mouth so he opens really big and says Ahhh.  

• Identify the Front and Back of a book (the front of a book such as the title, author, illustrator, etc.)

• Practiced tracking from left to right

• Reviewed our 2 sight words, I & the - looked for our words as we read books in our book bin

• Created a class book about our apples - we each created a page by drawing a picture and writing a describing word

• Introduced to Reading Stations - Writing Work

 

 

Math:

• Calendar

• Took a NWEA screening Early Numeracy math assessment in the computer room.  We had to do things like match, count and identify numbers, identify more and less, and answer questions moving objects.  

• Played Sit and Count

 

Religion:

• Explored the narrative of the Good Shepherd. 

• Recognized the shepherd’s staff and its purpose. 

• Introduced the Bishop and learned that he also carries a shepherd’s staff, known as a crozier.

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Friday:

Reading:

• Listened to the Secret Story of the letter U. Letter U is a vowel and all vowels are superheroes in disguise.  When a vowel because a superhero, it says its name.  When the letter u is in her lazy disguise, she pretends to be a student who never listens to the teacher, so she doesn’t know what is going on.  When asked a question, she scratches her head and says uhhhhhhh.  

• Introduced to fiction and nonfiction stories.

• Listened to two different stories, Apple Picking and Apple Picking.  After each story, we had to determine what kind of story it was.

• Worked on some our letter formation skills on the iPad

 

Math:

• Calendar

• Explored the number 0 and completed the first page in our number book

 

Relgion:

• Mass at Church

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