September 10-14

Important Notes:

• Tuesday is September 11 so wear red, white and blue!
• Tuesday, September 18 is the Ice Cream Social from 6:00-8:00 at Leighton Elementary School
• Ask your child about the traffic light behavior system.  What color is your child on?
• HOMEWORK--Have you played a rhyming game with your child?  Practice rhyming by asking your child if two words rhyme.  (Do cake and rake rhyme?) Also, try asking your child to think of a word that rhymes with a word you say.  (Can you think of a word that rhymes with sun?)

Language Arts

This week our stories will be about our five senses.  We will be reading both fiction and non-fiction books.  We will be experiencing all of the senses, except tasting, during our activities this week.

We will continue our practice of phonemic awareness with our "blue book" activities.  We will focus on rhyming.

Handwriting:  We will continue with Frog Jump Capitals ( F, E, D, P, B, R, N, M)

Math

We are working on saying the number before and after any given number from 0-30.  What number comes before 18?  What number comes after 12?

We are beginning a unit on shapes.  We will make shapes out of clay and create them on a geoboard.

Science:  5 senses