Week of Learning 3/14

Reading:

We read fiction books about rabbits who learn to listen and summarized. 

We summarize by putting one hand to the right of our head and telling about the character; one hand to the left and telling about the setting-that's the beginning. Then we touch our bellies and describe the problem in the middle of the story. Finally, we touch our feet and describe the ending or where the solution took place.

We also read about Leprechauns on St. Patrick's Day! :) 

We also learned the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts. 

Letters and Sight Words:

We learned about the letter Y and made some super cute Yaks! Of course I forgot a picture. :( 

Math:

We started learning about the coins-their names and their values. Please practice this at home with real coins. The more practice identifying those tricky coins the better when we start adding up the values of a set of coins. 

Unit Study:

We learned about the season of spring and what perfect weather for that! They love this song and were so cute singing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjpI6fgYSY

Sorry this is blurry :(

5MTOW:

Removing beginning sounds of words is tricky for some kids. What you want to do is say a word like tower and ask the child to remove the beginning sound (/t/) and ask what word you would have left? (our) Continue until this is really easy! And move on to taking off the ending sounds.