We had an awesome week.! The kids have really gotten into our morning and afternoon routines and we have been able to get many activities accomplished. This week in our literature block the students practiced 2 activities. We have been building our stamina in both read to self and work on word centers. This week we accomplished our goal of 20 minutes of reading to self. We were all so excited to get to color in all the way to the top of our graph! In work on words we practice with our spelling words for the week which had short e and short i sounds. We carried this pattern over to our shared reading poem as well. Next week we will be adding a listening to reading activity. In math we learned about the facts of 5 and the facts of 10. Students are working to memorize these facts so that they can build their math facts around them. This week will will continue to memorize our "Friends of Ten" and learn how knowing these can help us solve other math problems including subtraction. Enjoy the pictures and check back in for more updates next week!
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We have had a wonderful first 2 weeks of school. The students have learned the names of their classmates and the routines and schedule of our day. We began our math and writing journals and have already added two pieces to our shared reading notebooks. This past week in reading we focused on describing characters. We took a close look at some famous characters and looked for words in the book that described them. Then we had a turn to do the same with other books in our classroom library. In math we have been practicing counting, reading, and writing number to 120. We worked with the 120's chart to play the game guess my number. We also learned about even and odd numbers. We are looking forward to another great week. We will begin our addition and subtraction unit, writer's workshop, and explore the different types of settings in stories. We will also practice words with short e and short i sounds. I've been busy putting our classroom together and getting it ready for the first day of school. I can't wait to show you what it looks like on Thursday. Can you use the clues from our webpage and figure out what theme our class might have? Parents if you want to save some time at meet the teacher day, I'm attaching a quick survey here to collect some important information. Feel free take a look around our webpage and I can't wait to meet you soon! |