September 6-9

I hope everyone had a great Labor day with this wonderful weather!
Last week we had a student teacher, Mrs. Becher, start in our classroom. This week she will begin doing some teaching in literacy. So, here's what will be going on this week:

Literacy
We will continue previewing the alphabet this week focusing on the letters Pp-Tt.
We will be reading a couple stories this week. One will be the Gingerbread Man, the other is called These are My Hands. We will be making a couple class books from these stories to have in our classroom!
In writing we will be learning how to use our writing folders, what to do when we finish a story, a new way to share our stories, and that we need to tell a story through our pictures.

Math
This week we will be looking at numbers 1-10. Showing numbers with manipulatives, graphing numbers to see which is more or less and learning how to write the number 3. If the lessons go as planned we will have homework on Tuesday and Thursday.

Social Studies
We are beginning our social studies unit Me and My Country this week. We will be talking about why we have rules and laws and what the symbols of America are.

Book Order
I will be sending home a book order home tomorrow. Please take time to look it over and return it or order online by Friday. If you have any questions, please let me know!