I am so proud of our class.  All of the children worked very hard this week.  Our observation on Thursday went fabulous.  Everyone did a great job and our visitor was very impressed with everything they saw!

 I have begun updating our classroom web page.  Please check it often to see what we are doing in our classroom. 

http://www.auburnschools.org/auburn_early_ed/mlsanders/

 SHARED JOURNAL

This week, we began having 2 children sign up to share.  The children are really doing a great job listening to the stories and asking good, thoughtful questions.  We have also begun talking about the qualities of these stories.  This negotiation process helps the children determine which story they will vote on. 

I will be sending September journals home next week.  Please don’t forget to send them back the next day.  I will be saving them for you in your child’s binder. 

 THEME

We finished our study on houses this week by graphing the type of home we live in. We also voted on a title for our 3^rd class book, which is about different things that can be houses. We got the idea for this book from A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman. The children named our book Our House Book.  We finished the week off by making our 4^th class book. The children modeled it from the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? They made collage houses out of construction paper and then wrote their addresses at the bottom to make their book called Children, Children, Where do you live? Next week we will begin reading and learning about families. Towards the middle of the week we will begin to read about the circus to move into the pod theme. Be sure to ask you children to tell you about our new class books, we had a lot of fun making them.

 SHARED READING

We read books about bedtime and going to bed.  With these books, we focused on initial sounds and letter identification.  The books Good Night Moon and Time for Bed also had rhyming words in them.  So, we got a good review on rhyming words as well.

 CENTER TIME

In addition to our regular centers, the children made play dough for our Play Dough Center.  The children loved making the dough and did a great job.  This activity was especially important because it gave me many opportunities to question and talk with the children so that they could begin to understand the chemistry behind all of the mixing and heating we did.

 IMPORTANT DATES AND NOTES

 Please don’t forget to send in a coloring book if you have not already done so.  This is so helpful during journal time.

Don’t forget to send in items  for our class basket.  Our basket’s theme is “Out in the Garden”.  I know that we will have a great basket for the silent auction. 

When your child is out, please remember to send in an excuse. 

If you want to help chaperone our trip to the Montgomery Zoo, please let me know ASAP!!! 

Monday, October 2 – PTA Meeting 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 3 – Learning & Lunch 11:30-12:30

Thursday, October 5 – Family Fun Night 4:30-7:00

William, Conrad and Amelia help make play dough for our class.