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Last week was a very good week with all of the kids being very excited about all of our apple activities. Come in and see our apple tree we created out of twigs leaves and apple stamping!!! We even got to taste some yummy desserts that the children made. I hope you have an opportunity to try them at home!

__Language__

This week we will focus on the letter i again. We will be doing extensions explaining that it is not only a letter but also a word!!! Remember, it is great to play letter games with your child at home - "I spy the letter..." "Letter bingo" and even "Hide and Seek a letter" (they have to find a letter hiding in a book!)

Journals - We are going to write in our journals this week. Our sentence starter will be - I like to.... They will draw a picture and then print a sentence to go with their picture. We will discuss that words in storybooks match the picture and as authors of their journals they need to make sure that they do the same thing. Some children will print random letters, but know that this is the first step towards sounding out words and it is perfectly okay!

__Math__

We are still working on numbers. We will be creating a number line to go along with our apple number line we created last week.

Many other math opportunities come up throughout the day and we continue to develop those skills, the concepts I list on wikispaces are the ones that I focus on during large group activites.

Again, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me!!