Literacy
Students have been reading for 15 minutes everyday! We have been working hard at building stamina with our word work. On Friday students reached 12 minutes!!! They are doing awesome! Tomorrow I will be introducing our word work bins. Each bin has an activity in it around letters, sounds, words, rhyming, beginning sounds and/or other skills we are learning. Students will choose one bin per person and work on the given activity during our word work time. We have been practicing rhyming- listening to stories, playing games and matching rhyming pairs. We will continue working with rhyming this week!
We also learned about our cafe menu. Our cafe menu is similar to a menu at a restaurant, but rather than food choices, students have a menu of reading strategies that we practice all year. In the Friday folder, you may have noticed a letter about Listening for Understanding. This is one of many strategies that goes on our cafe menu.
In writing, students have been working in the writing workshop to produce pieces of writing. Students are at different places but we practice making our picture match our words, adding details, and using sight words/stretching words out to produce writing. A few students a day also get the opportunity to share their writing at the end of each workshop.
So far, we have learned the letters m, a and d. We have practiced hearing these sounds in the beginning and end of words. This week we will be working with the letters s and t. Students have also been practicing handwriting with these letters using D'Nealian font.
Math
Students have been working with numbers 0-5. We have been counting sets, matching sets, sorting objects, counting to 100, counting forwards and backwards. Students also worked with partners to find hidden partners of 5 (eg. 2 and 3 or 4 and 1). We have also been working on fluently representing numbers with their fingers and identifying numerals 0-5. Students also practiced and demonstrated ways to track counting.
Science/Social Studies
We began our social skills program called Second Step. The unit we are working in now helps students with being a good listener and focusing their attention. We also continue to build our classroom community and work through difficult social situations around friendship, sharing and kind words. In science, we continue to learn about pumpkins, which we will wrap up this week with our fall festival!
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