Our centers this week included finding and writing power words and arctic words, completing various activities with blends and digraphs, writing about arctic animals, playing power word games, and writing about polar bears.
In Reading, we started our nonfiction unit as well! We talked about places in our community while reading the nonfiction book My Home, Your Home. We identified the main topic of the book, discussed information we learned about the topic, and made text to self connections. We explored the differences between fiction and nonfiction books. We learned new vocabulary words (apart, explain, attach, reattach) and learned a new word-learning strategy of recognzing words with multiple meanings buy using the prefix re- to determined word meanings.
During Phonics, we worked on building words and changing out beginning sounds. We practiced reading and writing the power words have and has. Please encourage your child to write words with blends and digraphs with you at home and ask them to read simple sentences (ex: The cat is big. Fox has the fix the box. Is the dog wet? Can the man swim?) We also learned the power words have and has and worked on word families.
We continued working on addition word problems and writing and solving addition problems to 10. Please keep working at home with your child!
We talked about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed everyone should be treated the same and that our words should be kind. We shared thoughtful ideas about what it means to be a good friend and how we can help make our classroom a happy place for everyone. We also talked about how we are all alike, but also all different and how we appreciate how each of us are special and unique.
During Writing, we began talking about nonfiction stories and writing. We talked about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. We wrote a list of facts about our classroom and wrote pages for a class book about KD. We shared our stories in our Author's Chair.
Have a great weekend!
Jena
