Room 9 Newsletter for the week of Oct. 23-26
This was another busy week in room 9. We focused on Patterns and the Letter ‘B’. We read the books All About Pattern by Irene Yates and Spotty, Stripy, Swirly What are Patterns? By jane Brocket. We discovered that patterns are everywhere! They are in nature, in and outside of buildings, even in our own homes! We asked the class to go home and look for patterns. The next day the children came back with their findings: “My floor is a pattern, it’s black and white.” -Jordan “Did you know at my house I have a pattern in my Mom’s bathroom and it’s white squares?”-Riley “In my bathroom there’s black lines and white squares.”-Hunter “I saw patterns on my bed sheets.”-Riley “I saw patterns on my bedspread, grey, pink, grey, pink.” -Avery “My bed had a pattern of stars.”-Ryder During the week we also offered many opportunities for the children to make patterns through art, movement, even sounds. Some children chose to make patterns when beading bracelets and room decorations, others made patterns through repeated movements that the children had to mimic, still others made patterns with sounds! It has been a fun and playful but always a learning experience. This week we also focused on the letter ‘B’. First, we looked at an upper and lower case B. We practiced writing them, forming them using playdough and Wikistix and we even put upper case B’s all over the classroom for the children to find! We asked the class to come up with words that have the B sound. We heard: Boy, bathroom, book, Babak, bunny, bath, balloon, bubblegum, bundle and buffalo!! The children are excited to bring in an item on Friday that begins with the letter B. We want to thank Stacey, Whitman’s Mom for reading at the Library on Wednesday. It was so special for Whitman and for all of us to hear two terrific stories! Reminders: Parent/teacher conferences 10/31 and 11/1 Whitman and his family are our Shabbat guests on Nuvember 9 Library Reader: Karen Denvir 11/7
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