Room 1 News

Mrs. Grays Class

Oral Language
Theme for week: Positional words
Monday: Which Way Do We Go? Reading and turning
pages from top to bottom and left to right.
Tuesday: In or Out? Toss and Shout (rapid retrieval
of positional words)
Wednesday: Listen and Pass (following directions,
demonstrating understanding of positional words)
Thursday: Compare and Share (describing size)
Friday: Lets Decide, Narrow or Wide? (describing
spaces as narrow or wide)

September 26-30
Phonological Awareness &
Handwriting without Tears
Where Do You Start Your Letters? Song
Focus on compound words: Word Magic- One Word
Turns into Two and Two Words, New Word
Letter L building: Building L with wood pieces, Roll a
Dough Letter L, Stamp, See and Write screens,
Wet/Dry/Try writing L and L page in workbooks

Books and Related Activities

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle (Learning about plant growth and change through the seasons)
My Leaf Book by Monica Wellington (identifying trees by their leaves, comparing leaf shapes, leaf walk)
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson (discussing the many uses of wood)
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons (plant life cycle, plant vocabulary)
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens (reviewing plant parts we eat)
The Farmers Huge Carrot by Henry OTanner Kindergarten (story by children about caring for a huge carrot)
Up Down and Around by Kathryn Ayres (reviewing vegetables and fruits, plant parts and what we eat)
A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry (discussion on how trees help us)
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (Making Leaf creatures with natural materials)

Art/Creative Activities

STEM Activities

Leaf Books: Collecting and comparing leaves,

pasting into our Leaf Books
Q-tip Tree paintings-painting trunks and branches,
then adding fall colored leaves with Q-tip bundles.
Special Activities:
Mrs. Grays Kind Kids Crew hung a bird feeder/bird
swing outside our classroom window for our bird
friends! We used tweezers to pick dried corn
kernels off the cob and added them to birdseed.
Finally we planted tulip, iris and hyacinth bulbs right
outside our classroom window.

Science Technology Engineering Math

Collecting and comparing leaves from trees, setting

leaves in liquid watercolors, planting lima beans and
observing bean seeds sprout in baggies, planting bulbs
for spring, Tinker Tray activities and building with
pattern blocks and mirrors

Spanish Activities
Body parts in Spanish
Leaf, plant and tree in Spanish

Upcoming Events
October 3 & 4: Parent Visitation Days 8:15-10:15 AM and 1-3 PM
October 5: Picture Day
October 7: Field Trip to Applejack Pumpkin Patch