Our literacy centers included activities that focus on words that begin and end with blends, counting to 100 activities and writing about various 100th day topics.
We learned the -ing ending during Phonics and read a few Shared Reading books and passages that had the -ing ending! Ask your child to write -ing words such as king, ring, sing, etc.
We started our nonfiction writing unit this week! In our lessons, we read nonfiction books and generated a list of questions that we wanted to learn about the topic. We explored question words and wrote a list of interesting people to write about. We interviewed Mrs. Haar, using question words, and then interviewed and wrote about our partners.
We also started our nonfiction unit in Reading! We began our exploration of places in our community by listening to the nonfiction book My Home, Your Home. We identified the main topic of the book, discussed the information we learned, and made text to self connections. We explored the differences between fiction and nonfiction books. We learned the words apart, explain, attach, and reattach during our vocabulary lessons.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we reviewed what we've learned about kindness and the power of kind acts to help people feel good. We drew ourselves doing a kind act for someone at school. Ask your child to show or tell you about their drawing of doing a kind act for someone at school. Encourage them to draw a picture of themselves doing a kind act at home too.
During Math, we worked on decomposing teen numbers using tens and ones. We learned how to count on from ten and add ones to form a teen number. Ask your child to teach you!
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