Week of Learning 9/8

 What a great, fun group of kids! Here we are with our silly faces!

 

Reading: 

We read the patterned texts of Brown Bear, Brown Bear and talked about the correct way to hold a book and the illustrator.  

We talked about the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F briefly. We also read Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom and made these cute trees!

We learned how to rotate in stations. Ms. H put us in reading groups and we did seatwork, stations, writing at Mrs. White's table, reading at Ms. H's table, and played with iPads.

Here is the rotation schedule.

The puppet literacy station.

The classroom library literacy station.

Writing with Mrs. White! My FAB assistant!

Seatwork at our table spots.

Working at Ms. H's table.

Working with the iPads.

These are our book boxes...starting to get filled!

Unit Study:

We talked about how to be a good citizen in a community. 

No David helped us!

He also helped us practice gluing with a glue stick.

 We also learned about how good citizens have a job within the community so Ms. H put us to work!

Finally, we learned our class rules. I can show you the motions if you ask me!  

Math:

We learned about school tools like crayons to help us color; scissors to help us cut; glue that helps us put things together; and pencils to help us write. We also practiced using them this week.

Making these apples helped us practice how to glue with bottles and cutting.

We also started our Everyday Counts Board. We add lots of things each day we've been in school to talk about counting and numbers. 

Pennies, paper clips, straws, tallies, pennies, dots, and squares are just some of the things we count!

We also learned how to play in morning stations!

AND, we practiced playing with math tubs!

5MTOW:

Rhyme every night with your child. I tell the kids that rhyming words sound the same at the end. Say a word and have him/her say a rhyming word back to you. Kick it up a notch and say two words that rhyme. Ask if they rhyme. Then say two words that don't rhyme and ask if they rhyme. In order to be successful readers, kids MUST learn how to rhyme orally. :)