We finished up our Post Office unit this week and were excited to celebrate Valentine's Day!
Our centers this week included various writing activities for our valentines, playing CVC and blends games, building sentences and words with blends, and reading and writing sight words.
In Writing, we heard, visualized, and acted out poems. We tried writing poems of our own! We learned about repetition and revisited rhyming words.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that taking time to feel calm before reacting is a helpful first step to solving a problem. Let your child see you taking a moment to feel calm at home when things are busy or stressful. For example, say, “Today was a really busy day. I’m going to take a few slow breaths to help me feel calm.” Invite your child to join you.
In Reading, we continued our exploration of places in our community by listening to nonfiction books about libraries. We discussed information we learned about the topic and made text-to-self and text-to-text connections. We revisited some familiar big books, reviewed punctuation and rhyme, and echo read to build our oral fluency. Our vocabulary words this week were study, curious, organize, and reorganize.
During Phonics, we continued our work with long and short vowels. We reviewed the "ck" blend and talked about when to use "k" versus "c" at the beginning of a word (we use "c" when the sound is followed by the letters a, o, u and "k" if there is an e or i after it). We made word ladders with CVC words and practicing changing the middle and ending sounds. We learned the power words "as" and "has".
February 29th- 7:50 - 8:25 am : A-M
March 1st 7:50 - 8:25 am : N-Z
