Notes:

*Just a reminder that if you are ordering from book order that the turn in date is Tuesday Oct. 7 (still a week from today).

*Library books due on Thursday.

*Your child is bringing home the story “What Is It” to read to you. Please sign and return. Thanks!

Thank you,Mrs. Hartung

Today’s Schedule: Tuesday Sept. 30, 2014*Morning Duties: folder, name-tag, SMARTboard picture*Breakfast/Morning Activity in room*Morning Meeting: Greeting- Hello Neighbor;Sharing: Surprise Box; Group Activity: Flag Pledge and Calendar; Morning News: SMARTboard (graphing/phonics activity)*Reading Block: Comprehension: We used our prior knowledge telling our talking partner about what we knew about fire fighting. We listened to the story “Dot The Fire Dog” and “A Very Busy Firehouse” on bookflix.com. We completed vocabulary and comprehension puzzlers after the stories. We will be studying about fire safety. National Fire Safety is the week of Oct. 5th. We will be taking a trip to the fire station in Plum City. I will let you know when. first round of Daily 5 centers.Word Work: We practiced our new words for the week (we, can, you, it). We cheered our new words. We read the book “What Is It”. We circled our new words “is”, “it”, “a” Please continue to help your child read, identify, and spell these new words. Thanks! Daily 5: We completed the second round of Daily 5.Phonics/Fluency: sang Alphardy and fire fighting songs.Daily 5: We completed the third round of Daily 5. Sharing/Check In: How did centers go?*Recess/Lunch*Rest: movie or story*Specials: Health, PE, and computer lab*RTI: (Response To Intervention) We worked on rhyming words, initial sounds, alphabet letter names and sounds, and syllables with a SMARTboard game *Math: *Lesson: We worked with comparing numbers and writing the number 5. We completed some workbook pages.*Centers: We worked independently on the IXL.com program for math. We worked more on our numbers and what they represent. *Recess/Snack *Writer’s Workshop: We continued making our color book. We are writing about things we like and cutting out pictures and labeling them. We started on our green page. We labeled our pictures today.

Thanks Officer Eric for coming to our

Room!