Mrs. Landry's Little Leaders
Growing & Learning Together!
November Happenings
Word of the month - Citizenship
Leader in Me (Habit 3 Put First Things First.)
November 1 word of the week Prioritize
November 4 word of the week Patriotism
November 6 Teacher in Service / Student Holiday
November 7 Picture Retakes - please send a note and previous pictures if you want retakes
PTA Popsicle on the Playground 3:30
TLM - Parent Night
November 9 Make sure you have turned in Library Books
November 11 Word of the week Optimism
November 12 - 16 Scholastic Book Fair in The Library
Veteran's Day
November 14 - wear a college shirt
November 15 -Thanksgiving Lunch - can join your child but must purchase a meal ticket
November 18 - Spirit Day (wear red shirt )
November 19 - 23 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 25 word of the week cooperation
Thematic Units
- Five Senses - Using my senses to learn about the world.
- Healthy Foods- intentionally build students’ vocabularies as they learn to use sensory language to describe the things they see, hear, feel, smell, and taste. The process skills of describing, sorting, and comparing are important science and social studies skills.
- Thanksgiving
- Family Celebrations - focus on how we are the same and different
Books We Are Reading
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- My Five Senses
- Your Senses
- The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree
- Four Seasons , Five Senses
- Five For A Little One
- Eating The Alphabet
- Good Food
- Beastly Feast
- How Does Your Salad Grow
- My Little Sister Ate One Hare , by Bill Grossman
- Celebrations
- Knuffle Bunny
- Bears Busy Family
- Peter's Chair
- Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving
Our Fall Celebration was so much fun! Thank you for all the parent help!
Language
Literacy Enrichment
- Comprehension - think about the characters in the story.
- Continue recognizing and generating alliteration and isolating/producing the beginning sounds in words.
- practice blending and segmenting syllables and listening for rhymes
- Children use books and other written materials to engage in pre-reading behaviors. Independent Reading Time
- Shared Reading
- Listening & Comprehension Skills. Students show understanding by following two and three step directions.
- Learning Letters - Hearing Beginning Sounds and Naming Letters.
- Sight Words -not introducing specific sight words but helping students recognize when they see a word they are very familiar with such as : stop, go , mom and color words. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange & Brown
- There is a big focus in this unit on phonological awareness. Teachers will be helping students listen to pairs of words said and ask them to tell f those words are the same or different. Teachers will help students listen for/isolate the initial sound in words as well.
- Vocabulary - listen, ask, answer, see, feel ,touch, hear,eat, taste, tasty, sour, sweet, bitter, salty, blind, wheelchair, features, same, different, alike, right, left, top, bottom, up, down, front, back, smell, smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, hard, walk, crawl, jump,run, bones, organs,muscles,teeth,doctor,vitamins,checkup,shots, healthy, grow, plant, celebration, present, party,
- Song Folder Visit https://clearcreek.itslearning.com/lprice/songs/
- Understanding the difference between a letter and a word.
Writing
- Hand Writing , Introduce "magic C capitals and Big and Little Curves" - C, G,O,Q,
- lowercase handwriting letters u, c and d
- Students are given opportunities to draws simple pictures about experiences or a topic. Intentionally uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning . Understand that you can talk, draw and write about things that have happened to you
- Uses mock letters/letter strings
- Shared Writing
- iPad AP - Little Writer
- Recognizes and writes own name
Mathematics
- sort shapes , begin to label
- Counting objects to 5
- Calendar - Collecting and organizing data - Graphing the Weather,
- Classification - Describe and sort by different attributes ( alike & different)
- Sequencing Numbers - creating a number line
Patterns in the Environment
Exploring Counting Materials
Exploring Building Blocks- Geometry
Joining and separating- 1st Tell stories that involve joining or separating where you can demonstrate the action with the real objects • 2nd Tell stories that involve joining or separating where you can demonstrate the action using the students as the objects.
Social Skills
- Word of The Month - Citizenship
- Habit #3 Put First Things First - Children are understanding that they need to prioritize. They all have individual learning goals but the entire class has a goal to name 40 letters and count 10 objects. This months goal is to learn and name the 5 senses and use them to describe apples. We are also talking about citizenship and how to collaborate to make our community a good place.
- Actively seeking out play partners and using effective verbal skills to develop relationships. Initiating play and developing a common goal.
- students to add on to classroom discussions gently pushing them to engage in conversation in a public setting
- thinking of others and highlights the core values of kindness, fairness, and respect.
Reminders
We are encouraging children to speak in complete sentences. If your child speaks in phrases model how to use full sentence when talking.
Let Me Know If you would like to schedule a conference. My conference time is 11:30-12:00
Pre-K 4 Team
Feel Free To Contact Us
Email: llandry@ccisd.net
Website: https://clearcreek.itslearning.com/lprice/about/
Phone: 281-284-6200