Today was a great first day! We worked on recognizing our name, following class procedures, and getting to know some new friends! Please make sure kiddos have basic school supplies each week. Also make sure you have a schedule on their backpack or easily accessible. We did not have "at-home" work for this week, but we will next week!
Today we read The Pigeon HAS to go to School. We also worked on lots of skills with our Quick Start! We compared the Pigeon to the Grumpy Monkey from last week. We will read about these two characters A LOT this year! This was the first week "at-home" work was sent as well. As a reminder, we have no class next Monday!
Today we read We Don't Eat Our Classmates, which is one of Dr. Rowe's personal favorite picture books! We are working on the following skills in each grade strand:
K- Letters SATPIN
1st-CVC
2nd- Blends (and some digraphs)
Today was International Dot Day, so we had some fun reading The Dot by Peter Reynolds. We learned that we should always try our best!
We had a great day today!
K continues to work on SATPIN--We will switch to new letters after Fall Break
1st-Reviewing vowel sounds and consonant blends
2nd-Reviewing consonant blends, digraphs, and r-controlled vowels (this is pretty new, so we will be working on this one a while).
We read a hilarious book about taking our octopus to school and then students talked about octopus in Mrs. Allen's animal class!
We had a great day today!
K continues to work on SATPIN--We will switch to new letters after Fall Break
1st-Reviewing vowel sounds and consonant blends
2nd-Reviewing consonant blends, digraphs, and r-controlled vowels (this is pretty new, so we will be working on this one a while).
Today we read The Day the Crayons Made Friends, which is in the series of The Day the Crayons Left, so many of the students were familiar with this one! We won't meet next week, but we'll be back on 10/13 and we'll switch up the skills a bit at that time!
Today we started a new "unit." We are mixing up the skills and learning new things!
K: Letters CHERK (Reviewing SATPIN)
1st: Blends & digraphs (Reviewing CVC)
2nd: R-controlled (Reviewing Magic E)
All groups are learning syllables! We learned how to put our hand under our chin and say the word. Then we count how many times our hands move. This method is much more effective than clapping for younger children because younger kiddos often want to clap the SOUNDS not the syllables.
We also read My Monster Mama Loves Me So!
This week we had our 6-8 ASL friends to help us and we had so much fun! I heard so much good reading happening! I am so proud of how much our Readers have grown! Our ASL friends helped us spell our names and then spell some of the fun words on our quick start. This week we all read The Little Old Lady Who was Not Afraid of Anything. This book is fun because it's a cumulative book, which means kiddos pick up on the pattern quickly. It's also a movement book. Dr. Rowe taught everyone the movements to the book and we all had a very fun time acting this one out!
Today was Idiom Dress Up Day! In this class, I saw butterflies in stomachs and social butterflies! I also saw time flying! Great job! We read Creepy Carrots, which is a very funny story about Jasper the Rabbit. Everyone practiced counting syllables independently and I was so proud to see them doing so well! We also reviewed the following skills for each group:
K-SATPIN
1st CVC words
2- Magic E Rule
Today we read How to Trap a Turkey. We also learned some new words and phrases!
Today we read Turkey Trouble. This is a fun book that is great for predicting!
Today we talked about what we were thankful for! Then we read Thanks for Thanksgiving.
Today we practiced our sight word phrases and we read Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh, which is hilarous and we all love the Pigeon! We also had a discussion about what OTHER vehicles the Pigeon might want to drive and if we would or would not let him!
Welcome back to class! It was so good to see all of you and to see so many new faces! Today we read Just Snow Already! This book was hilarious and taught us that we need to pay attention to everything around us! For this week, everyone has "at home work" to work on. Please see email about that work.
Welcome back! I was very pleased with everyone's behavior and how well everyone remembered our procedures since we have been out for two weeks. The only thing we needed to review was raising our hand when we need help! Today we play a very fun high frequency game. Students had a list of words at their desk and then they had to go find those words around the room and glue them on their page. It was very fun and gave us a chance to practice words we use often. We will definitely play this again and this is a fun one to play at home. Next week, we will work on writing those high frequency words. We actually didn't end up having time for our story today, so they will definitely have to give a watch/listen to Pete the Cat Valentine's Day is cool.
Today we read Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (of Pigeon fame) and we talk a lot about print concepts. We also played the High Frequency Word game. Each grade strand should have the following words mastered:
K: I, am, see, it, is, in, the, a
1st: All K words plus: and, have, has, look, like, me, an, for, at, we, he, she, can, be, you, are, but, us, not, on, down, up, big, go, to, said, with, little, come, want, here, help, had
2nd: We've mostly focued on phrases in the 2nd group: there are some, so many of them, very different, this is my turn, etc.
Today we read Sneezy the Snowman, so I'm terribly sorry if any more snow happens upon us! We also worked a lot on rhyming words. Practice having your child predict the rhyming words when you read a rhyming book or have them give you a rhyming word when given a simple word such as ball, cat, or leg. I also began assessing students today. I will continue to work on these until after spring break.