Our centers these past two weeks have included building and writing CVC words and words with blends, finding dental health pictures around the room and writing the sounds we hear, writing the steps to take care of our teeth and writing ways to be healthy, reading power words, discriminating between real and nonsense words, practicing tapping out words with blends and writing them, and recording blends.
In Writing, we worked with our new partners to hear, visualize, and act out poems. We explored interesting words in a poem as well as repetition and rhyme. Some of us even wrote our own poems this week! We worked really hard on visualizing and drew and wrote our visualizations/what we saw in our minds. Ask your child to tell you about what they visualized during Writing.
We are continuing to work on addition problems and writing number sentences in Math. We talked about how we put together numbers when adding. Please continue to work on adding numbers to 5 with your child. Encourage your child to use their fingers or manipulatives to count on/add.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that apologizing is one way to begin to solve problems. We practiced using the phrases, “I’m sorry. Are you okay? How can I help?” as a way to help solve problems. Ask your child to teach you the three parts of the apology they learned. Encourage them to apologize when the opportunity arises at home.
Our Reading lessons have taught us more about listening to nonfiction books to build comprehension, how to wonder about a topic and ask questions, and discuss connections between two texts by comparing and contrasting to build on our ability to think critically about texts on the same topic. We also looked at poems that had the same topic (ducks) and made more connections.
We started a new Science unit titled "Make It Go". In the coming weeks, we will learn about the role of an engineer, compare and contrast natural vs. manmade items, learn about a push and a pull, and build our own galimotos!
Looking ahead...
Author Visit with Peter Reynolds- 3/1 (don't forget to purchase a book if your child would like one!)
Early Release Day- 3/8
Parent Teacher Conferences- 3/12 and 3/14
Spring Break- 3/15-3/24
Have a great weekend!
Jena
