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Mrs. Ruggieri’s Classroom News December 4, 2015 Dear
Families, After this week, your children are now owl experts! They
learned so much about owls’ habitats, food, bodies, feathers,
nature, and so much more through our owl unit. Take a look at all
of our learning from this week!
• We learned about the letters Qq and Zz. We will learn the last
two letters of the alphabet next week!
• Wingmasters came to visit us on Tuesday. We met an Eastern
Screech Owl, a Barred Owl, a Barn Owl, a Saw Whet Owl, and a Great
Horned Owl. We read many books about owls, and we also wrote a
teaching book about owls as a class.
• We learned the high frequency words “he” and “my.” • We read
the big book My Big Bear. We learned about the
superpower of finding the tricky word and thinking about what
would make sense. We also practiced finding the tricky word and
writing it down.
• We learned the poems “Little Hoot Owl” and “Quack, Quack,
Quack.”
• We pretended to be hungry owls and searched for “mice” with
snap words on them. We read the words in order to “eat” the
mice.
• In writing, we practiced stretching out words and writing more
sounds that we hear on the page. I encourage you to help your child
say the words he/she writes very slowly, stopping at each sound and
writing a matching letter on the page. We practiced writing stories
that
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are “easy to understand” and shared our true stories with a
writing partner to see if there were any other details or labels we
could add.
• In math, we practiced ordering the numbers 0-10 with games
called “Line Up” and “Beat the Timer.” We also played a racing dice
game where the children rolled a dice with the numerals 1-6 to see
which numeral would “win” (to reach the top of the game board
first). We also estimated how many pockets we were wearing as a
whole class and checked our answer by counting with cubes. In all,
the children wore 38 pockets today!
• We shared many of our special Hearts and Homes projects. The
children love hearing about each others’ families!
• In addition to learning about owls this week, we also studied
symmetry. We looked at pictures of animals and other natural things
that have symmetry and made our own symmetrical pictures.
• In social learning, we learned about Dangerous and Destructive
behaviors. A dangerous behavior is when someone could get hurt. A
destructive behavior is when something could be destroyed or when
someone’s feelings are hurt over and over. The children are
encouraged to tell an adult right away when they see a “Double D
Behavior” at school, on the playground, or on the bus.
• We read My Big Bear, Symmetry in Nature, Owl Babies, Owl Moon,
Little Owl Lost, Owls, The Barn Owls, Zach Apologizes, and Brown
Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?.
* Special Notes *
• School Picture Retakes will be held on Friday, December 11th.
Please contact the Main Office if you would like your child to
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have a photo retake. I also have a few extra copies of our class
picture. If you did not receive one, please let me know, and I will
send one home for you!
Sincerely, Michelle Ruggieri J [email protected]