We wrapped up our learning about nocturnal animals this week! Here are some of the important things we learned...
During Phonics, we worked on our last few letters/sounds that we haven't learned yet: Qq and Uu. We learned two new power words: you and of. We continued stretching out sounds and segmenting words, isolating beginning and ending sounds, and reading and writing power words. You can find the words we are working on on the tab above!
In Reading, we read the story Whistle for Willie by Exra Jack Keats and worked on retelling to deepen our understanding, making text-to-self connections, talked about patterns in rhyming stories and practiced rhyming words, and looked at illustrations and talked about their importance. We also learned new vocabulary words: proud, determined, whirl, and scramble.
This week in writing, we used the book Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park to inspire our writing. After reading the story, we talked about our favorite foods and made connections to our own experiences. We are learning how writers get ideas from books, conversations, and things we know and love. We are practicing drawing pictures to represent our ideas and turning those ideas into sentences using words we know, letter sounds, and inventive spelling. We are also working on using spaces between words, capital letters, and sharing our writing with others.
We finished up our Math using on comparing and collecting data. Our next topic introduces us to the concept of addition and focuses on understanding addition as “put together” and “add to.” We will learn to represent addition in different ways and use addition to solve real-world problems. The work in this topic builds toward fluently adding within 5.
We completed a fun Science investigation to see if various items would sink or float.
In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that it’s important to practice and keep trying in order to get better at something we want to learn. Encourage your child to choose something they want to get better at (such as, tying their shoes, adding or subtracting, writing their name, dribbling a ball, or snapping their fingers). Set aside a few minutes each day for them to practice the skill, and highlight the progress they’re making.
Play Lab pictures are posted below! We spent all of Monday and Tuesday in the Lab due to the classroom flood, which gave us lots of opportunities to learn in there throughout different parts of the day. Because of the scheduling changes and the flood, we were unable to join Ms. Hughes' class this week, but we will have plenty of Play Lab time together next week! Thank you for your flexibility as we navigate our temporary classroom changes!
ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT for SNOW MUCH FUN!
Looking ahead...
