Letter Names & Sounds: Reviewing Aa - Hh. For Trimester 1, hopefully the owls will
have 8 letters both capital and lower case down :o)
Computer Lab!!! :o) Hooray!!! The lab is finally available. We are working on
ABC Mouse reviewing all the letters. The owls also get to explore words/things
that begin with the letter as well as learn more fun songs to help remember their
ABCs ;o)
Sing, Spell, Read & Write: This is another phonics program that we use to learn the letter
names and sounds. You will see practice sheets coming home soon with this program's
activities :o) There is a phonics page, picture dictionary page and a handwriting page.
So far, we've done Aa, Bb & Cc & Dd & Ee, Ff, Gg & Hh. Hopefully the owls will
have mastered 8 capital and its lower case letter name and sound.
Playdo Recipe: Miss Peggy has a Kool Aid recipe that I'll be trying :o) Will compare
to Grammy Paula's recipe and get back to you ;o)
GoNoodle! Is another fun site that we visit to get our wiggles out, learn the ABCs
with movements, counting, large motor skills like jumping & hopping. Our favorite
is Belly Breathe when we need to calm ourselves down ;o) Check it out! Very FUN!
Other Fun Phonics youtube sites: For letter names and sounds visit Phonics
Songs 1, 2 & 3 :o) Revisited Letter Factory!
Number Songs youtube sites: The Big Number Song, Counting Numbers 1 -10 :o)
Fine Motor Skills Practice: We're working our way up to doing Allie Alligator: 7 pieces,
Ella Elephant: 8 pieces! Almost there ;o)
Handwriting Without Tears: This is another fine motor skill practice where your little one
uses the jumbo crayons to color in specific colored pictures. The purpose of this is for their
little fingers and wrists to develop and build-up stamina in their fine motor muscles ;o)
We've moved on to different colors & shapes. Red, blue, yellow, pink, green,
black, white, brown & purple. NOTE: We've also read & sang about each color.
See which color song your little owl remembers or likes :0) Shapes: circle,
square, triangle, oval & rectangle so far ;o)
High Frequency Word: I The owls are learning that the capital letter I can also be used
as a word, "I". Our favorite way to practice this is of course, to sing! :o)
"Oh I know _______!" Tune: The-Famer-in-the-Dell. We sing this Name Song during
our Morning Meeting Greeting. In TK & K, the High Frequency Words will only need to be
recognized. Knowing how to spell the HFWs will be expected in first grade. We've moved
on to: see & a :o) We wrote another Journal Page! Yay! Sentence #1: I see a ______.
We also read our first little book: I See Me!
Number Recognition: 1 - 10 Favorite youtube sites: Counting Number Song 1 - 10
(there's two versions) and The Big Number Song which goes up to 100 :o) They LOVE
this one!
Library Read Alouds: Wednesdays with Mrs. Casagrande :o) The Owl Who was Afraid
of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson and Night Creatures by Wade Cooper
Art Docent Lesson: Texture The owls talked about bumpy, smooth, rough & soft.
Miss Flory read two books (Oops! Will get titles :o) so the owls could FEEL all the
fun feelings of texture. The owls then did crayon rubbings to make their October
pumpkins come alive! ;o) Check out the owls' artwork on our TK Owl Shutterfly
Website :o)
Songs: Patriotic Song for October - "This Land is Your Land"
Greenhill Spirit Song
October Sing Songs: Let's Make a Jack-o-Lantern, Dem Bones, Purple People Eater,
Witches Brew, Looking for Dracula
Visit Our Classroom section to read more about what we do during Morning Meetings :o)
Cheers! Mrs. O
PS!!! :o)
If you haven't heard by now, we have a new owl, Brandon Wedrosky #22 :o)
Thank you for helping him & mom, Connie feel
welcomed to our class & Greenhills!
:o) You're the best, Owl Family!!! :o)
