Mrs.O'Bryan's

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Weclome back! I hope everyone had an awesome fall break full a family and fun. With only 3 days back this week (and after a longer break), we really just focused on easing back into routine. We also had a few friends still out this week enjoying their fall break a little longer, so I did not want us to jump into to much just yet. There will be a little bit of that next week too, but we will pick up the pace and start diving into more learning and growing. 

This week in language arts we just did a nice letter review over the course of 2 days. We had a 'leaf pile' and we had to reach into our shoe box and pull out a leaf pile letter. We then said the letter, the sound and practiced writing it. I am seeing a lot of fine motor improvement! Keep up working on fine motor at home with fun activities that work those finger and hand muscles... every little bit helps! In Math, we finished our fall graphing from last week and did nocturnal animal tanagrams. This is where we made nocturnal animals out of different shapes. We talked about the shapes and how we can manipulate them to make the larger shape (animal) we want. 

We celebrated two fall birthdays this week (that happened over the break) Lainey and Bennett S. We also had Mrs. Passons in as our Mystery Reader this week. They are loving having guests come in and read to them and are always anxious to see if it will be someone they know!

Mrs. Katie continued to talk about all the different things we see when we are in church and what they mean. They are really engaging well around these lessons and learning about all the symbols in Mass. We introduced Nocturnal Animals this week and will do more next week. We learned what the word nocturnal means and I also introduced the opposite of nocturnal (diurnal) but focused mostly on nocturnal being sleeping in the day and playing in the night. We discussed different kinds of nocturnal animals and how they all see at night; challenge them this weekend and see if they can remember what nocturnal means and can name one nocturnal animal. 

Next week, we will do the letter M and once again review F E D P B R N M before moving on to our next group of letters. We will look at the number 5 as well and start introducing the teen numbers. I have changed their sign in sheets so they will all be signing in first and last name now. Many will go down to title case in their first name while some will continue with all uppercase, last names are all uppercase for now. We do have the color run next week, but I am not sure yet how involved the preschool is going to be as that is during our rest time. I will keep everyone posted on what that will look like for us but either way I believe we all get color run shirts so dress them in those next Friday! 

I hope everyone has another restful weekend and I look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday!