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We began our author study about Todd Parr! Todd’s books are silly yet teach kids many life skills such as ways to be kind, ways to show empathy, ways to be confident, and much more! We engaged in various Todd Parr writing activities during centers. More Todd Parr to follow next week...
Our centers this week included playing beginning sound games, playing the ABC games on Starfall (check this out at home!), reading I am Thankful by Todd Parr and writing about what we are thankful for, practicing writing our lowercase letters, reading It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr and writing about what we like about ourselves, and reading independently in our reading area.
In Writing, our focuses this week included looking at and discussing good writing, drawing and writing about our families, and labeling our pictures with beginning sounds. We worked with a partner to generate ideas and share our stories.
In Interactive Writing, we worked on writing the heart (sight) word "the" and "and". "The" is a word that we need to know by heart (it’s not a word that we can look at and sound out). You can read more about heart words here.
During Reading, we learned and practiced how to choral read with our class. We learned that words are groups of letters separated by spaces. We counted words in a line and matched our pointing to one spoken word while we read "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" together during Shared Reading.
Our Phonics lessons this week focused on the /m/ sound, /s/ sound, and short /a/ sound. We wrote the letters than stand for those sounds and identified words and pictures that begin with the sounds. We continued to work on blending, segmenting, and rhyming as well.
We wrapped up our first Math unit on numbers 0-5 and ordering numbers. Next week, we will start our second chapter in Math Workshop and will continue our work on numbers to ten.
In this week’s Second Step lesson, we learned that mistakes are a natural part of the learning process. We practiced encouraging each other (and ourselves) while the we learned and practiced a skill together: snapping our fingers. Remind your child that everyone makes mistakes and that mistakes help us learn. Point out when you make mistakes or tell them a story about a time you learned something from making a mistake.
Our Social Studies lessons this week continued talking about how we are alike and different, our families, and rules and responsibilities.
We had our first Yoga lesson with Mrs. Travers, our district Educational Support Counselor, and our first Counseling lesson with Ms. Peterson and Ms. Hudson! We worked on 5 Finger Breathing (we also call this Rollercoaster Breathing). We also learned about and met Charlie, Reed's Therapy Dog!
Looking ahead...
