Week of Learning 9/14

Reading:

We had a lot of fun reading various Wheels on the Bus versions like Seals on the Bus, and The Wheels on the Bus to School. While reading each, we've discussed the front cover, back cover, spine, and title page. Ask your student to show the motions we came up with to help us remember them. We also made these buses! 

We have started a quick introduction the letters (A-P so far) of the alphabet with fun exercises that you can find here: http://schoolinthekitchen.followinginmyshoes.com/preschool/not-christmas-related-but-i-love-it-abc-exercise-cards/

We also started learning how to create the best drawings at illustrators, as this is a precursor to writing skills. 

Unit Study:

We continued learning how to be a good citizen in our community by taking turns and sharing, exercising self control, being responsible, being respectful, working together in a group, and voting.

We voted today on our next compliment party. We already had extra recess on Tuesday and Monday we voted on bringing our favorite stuffed animal.

We worked in groups and created community posters.

Here we are practicing taking turns and sharing. We also were responsible and respectful when we cleaned up.

  

Math:

We learned how to sort this week. We can sort by colors, shapes, and sizes. 

 We also started math rotations. These are very similar to reading rotations so they have been a bit confused this week, but they did great today!!! 

This is our schedule for math. They have to follow this to know where to go next.

Before they play games at the red table, they complete a 'problem' in their math journal. The games played are ones I have introduced during whole group.

Yep! Math apps on the iPad.

And possibly their favorite, math tubs where they get to play!

At my table this week, I started giving the SEAL assessment, which stands for Stages of Early Arithmetic Learning. I use it to group my math groups by their number sense knowledge. We will discuss this further at our 1st conference. 

We also count the number of days we have been in school...here are some things we count.

pool noodles

paperclips

seconds on a clock and # cards

5MTOW:

Do finger # patterns! Have your student tell you to show 1-5 with their fingers. Make sure they can do it with both hands without counting. Once that has been mastered, move on to showing 6-10-without counting too. You could even kick it up a notch and show other ways to make numbers. For example, 5 can be shown with 1 hand; 4 on 1 hand and 1 on the other;  3 on 1 hand and 2 on the other, etc.