"All About Me" and "Hh"

This week we learned about the letter Hh.  We had fun, fun with this letter.  (Above: Students form capital and lowercase Hh with their bodies).

Watch the video below to get a great look at our fun throughout the week!

We read many great books to help with the letter Hh, "Hippo Hop," and "Hide-and-Seek Hippo" were two of our favorite Hh books.

Illustrating the "H" sentence: Hilda Hippo hops happily down the hill.

Making H hats

Happy Hat Day!

Decorating H with hearts

Honey-heart sandwiches

Hopping Contest

Hula-Hoop

Decorating heart cupcakes

Play-doh fun!

We love the letter H!

The thematic unit this week was "All About Me."  We discussed how special we each are, the students made "self-murals."  We traced each others outline, then created a mural of our favorite things.

These are some great books we read this week that helped us remember how special we are, "Freckleface Strawberry," "Today I Feel Silly," and "It's Hard To Be Five."

The students painted pictures of themselves, they did a fantastic job!

Self-Portraits

Everyone drew a picture of the number of siblings in their family, then created a class graph of the results.

Student of the Week: Caylee

Coming Up Next Week...

Phonics: Tt

Math: Topic 3 - Patterns

Thematic Unit: Family

Monday, September 6 - No School, Labor Day Holiday

Wednesday, September 8 - Grandparents' Day Lunch - Our class will go to lunch at 11:30am, please met in our class at 11:20am

Friday, September 10 - PHS Homecoming - To support the football team all students are allowed to wear a Purvis T-shirt Friday

Blog Password: turtle

**Please check out the "wish list" section at the top of the blog, thank you!!**

"All About Me" and the Letter Gg

"Open House" was Tuesday night and the students had a wonderful time showing their parents their classroom and some of the projects they had been working on in school. It was great to see everyone's family, thank you all for visiting our classroom!!

Our thematic unit this week was "All About Me." We read many fun books and celebrated how special we each are. The students created self portraits and we displayed them outside for everyone to see! These were fun to make and they looked just like us!

Some of the books we really enjoyed this week were Freckleface Strawberry, Today I Feel Silly, and It's Hard to be Five

The students also painted a picture of themselves. Of course they loved painting! We have these displayed in our classroom. They are beautiful pictures!
"Me"
Ten little fingers, ten little toes

Two little eyes, one little nose

Put them all together and what do you got?

You've got me, and that's a lot!

As we were learning the letter Gg we did many fun activities to help us learn this letter sound. Our silly phonics sentence this week was "Gary Gorilla gobbles green grapes." We also made a gumball machine and read the book "Gus the Goat." We sang in our "goat" voices to this fun book with our goat puppets.

We also blended our first word this week and learned a new phonics rule. We learned that when a vowel is followed by a consonant, the vowel is short and we code it with a breve. We then blended and coded the word "log." We will continue to use this phonics rule to read words as we learn more letter sounds! We also introduced the sight word "the." The students have been finding this word in print all week. They have done very well in phonics, they are learning very quickly and doing a wonderful job!

On Friday we had Spirit Day. The students wore purple and gold to support the high school football team. The cheerleaders came by for a visit and read to us. This was fun and we enjoyed the cheerleaders coming to our class!

Student of the Week: ZELLA!!

Coming up this week!
Phonics: Hh

Math: Continuing Topic 2: Positions and Locations; Topic 2 Test Thursday

Thematic Unit: Family

September 4: Happy Hat Day

September 7: Labor Day Holiday - No School

September 9: Grandparents' Day Lunch

This week's blog password: HIPPO