This week's Griffin Gazette

Reading Workshop:

We will read Plaidypus Lost on Monday and again on Friday. 

Letters recognition: O, P, Q, R, S

Snap words (words we should know in a snap): the, little

Comprehension skills: Fiction and Sequencing

See more in the FAMILY times (comes home Mondays in your child's folder) 

Writer's Workshop:

Starting a new Unit (Carrying on as Writers)

Skills will include:

Spelling the best we can and moving on

Revisiting the ABC chart

Introducing Booklets

Widening Writing possibilities: Lists and letters

Everyday Math:

Shape Collages: introducing circles, triangles, squares and rectangles

Shapes by feel

Which way do I go? - spatial vocab and concepts

Spin a number-practice reading numbers 1-10 using a game

THEME work: 

Continue to visit TREEs...

What Animals are doing right now in the FALL?

WHERE we live (Community)

VOLUNTEERS BEGIN THIS WEEK! SEE SCHEDULE ON BLOG! I AM SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOUR HELP!!!

A boy favorite....DODGE ball

The girls braving the "TIRE swing"....

FRIDAY, October 1st we celebrated the END of our APPLE unit with Mrs. Farrier while eating Martha 's famous Apple Strudel...We also had our first publishing party for Writer's workshop, so we "handled" two birds with one little stone...Thanks Martha.

More Apple Organizing madness

Working together