Circle words: "at" and "for"
Alphafriends: U, J
Writing: Pattern Books: students wrote new books using patterns and we published them for our classroom library. They used their super writing powers to help develop their ideas, use punctuation and fix and fancy their pieces.
Reading: we practiced many of our super reading powers and focussed on bringing our books to life with expression. Students worked on partner reading, word work, listening library and read to self.
We have been practicing our letter sounds and phonemes, or how many sounds you hear in a word. (2 or 3 for now).
We celebrated our awesome alphabet with some songs and dances by Jack Hartman and listened to, danced and sang along to the first 10 of our alphafriend songs. We will finish the others next week.
Science: I have been adding lots of new things to our science center. a paper white (amaryllis) bulb that is just sprouting and one that has bloomed. Magnets, phones to hear your own voice, mini-microscopes and oversized books about animals. Students love to wonder and explore. They ask great questions and make fun discoveries. We also read a story about different kinds of weather and how weather determines what you wear.
Social Studies: we have been using the globe and map to explore places and relate it to where animals live. (ocean, forest, desert)
Math: We reviewed addition, subtraction and equal signs.
Disappearing train: students work in pairs, to build a unifex train of 20, then roll the dice to add 1,2 or subtract 1,2. The object is to see who can get to zero first.
Missing Numbers: students filled in missing numbers from 1-20
Dice addition: rolled a pair of dice, wrote the equation and solved.
GeoBoards: practiced creating shapes and numbers with rubber bands on the pegboard..
How long is it: practiced measuring strings of different lengths with unifex cubes and recorded it.
Count by 10's: practiced sorting cards with ten frames, put them in order from 0-100 and matched the numeral to how many dots were on the card.
Counting collections: students picked a bag with objects, estimated how many were in the bag, then counted to find the actual number, They then recorded how they counted (groups of 1, 5, 10,)
IPAD- Subitize game (quickly recognize how many objects were shown without actually counting).
Read aloud: books about perseverance, being good listeners and not interrupting, kindness and Dr. Martin Luther King.