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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...
Check out all of the fun we had in the Play Lab this week! During our literacy block time, after reading The Kindness Book, we wrote to a friend who is kind to us. We put the letter in our friends mailboxes. We have free play in the afternoons. Pictures will be added weekly to this shared folder. :) Blog coming soon!
Our centers this week included playing beginning sound games, playing the ABC games on Starfall, reading I am Thankful by Todd Parr and writing about what we are thankful for, practicing writing and matching our uppercase and lowercase letters, reading The I'm Not Scared book and writing about what we aren't scared of, playing lots of sounds and alphabet games, 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) words "the" and "like", and "and". "The" and "like" are words that we need to know by heart (they are not words that we can look at and sound out). You can read more about heart words here. We also revisited the word "can" that we learned last week.
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.
In Math, we continued our work on numbers to 5. We talked about the vocabulary word "equal". We will continue our work on numbers to 10 in the coming weeks.
We continued to talk about the group plan during our WeThinkers lessons. This week, we read the story Swimmy and talked about how the fish needed the group to work together to be successful in not getting eaten by the bigger fish. More to come!
We spent time learning about Charlie, our therapy dog! Ask your child to tell you all about her!
