The first photo is during our Movement time... we were doing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" which then changes to "Hair, Elbows, Hips and Ankles" and then gets faster and faster. We are ALL still learning it!
We had so much fun with Reading Groups this week! The kids are so proud of themselves reading these books, talking about and finding sight words, identifying concepts of print, learning about and recognizing punctuation, "reading" the pictures, "calling themselves" and Reading to Self, discussing the characters and plot in their small groups and reading their word rings. I was able to meet with all groups twice and two groups a third time. This is an exciting time for them!
The new rotation of Literacy Centers began on Wednesday and this time the kids are writing letters to their classmates, "fishing" in a fish pond of lettered fish, sorting straight and curvy letters on the pocket chart and then cutting and sorting letters on a worksheet, sorting objects that begin with the /l/ sounds from those that do not and then sorting pictures on a worksheet, using the Storybook website on the classroom computers and listening and responding to The New Bear in School in our reading corner.
We finished our Student of the Day rotation so be on the lookout for the class book as I will let each child bring that home to read and share with his/her family. This time is now dedicated to Literature studies and sight word activities. Next week we will be reviewing concepts of print features, characters and rhyming words.
Our Writing lessons included using "talking bubbles." We read two Mo Willems books and made observations about his use of talking bubbles. Then, the students illustrated and wrote a conversation between two characters. Pretty funny stuff from these authors! ;)
Social Studies focused on ways in which students can help. This includes one another, their families, their friends, adults in the school and themselves. They made paper quilt of their ideas.
Our focus in math this week included counting to 100, classifying, comparing quantities, comparing numbers, articulating the total when adding one to a set, and starting to use "greater than" and "less than" when identifying such comparisons. We also focused on attributes of shapes. The kids identified defining attributes of shapes and then we colored those shapes on a paper according to those attributes. The next day, the kids sorted the nine shapes in various ways until they settled on the way they liked best and glued them into their math journals.
We had a special visitor on Thursday this week, Barbara Rudakevych, or Mrs. R as well call her. She led a lesson about how our brains work. The kids did a great job participating and asking thoughtful questions. Here are the shots I got as I observed. She will be joining us for lessons throughout the year and is a Primary Talent Development Teacher for Advanced Academics for FCPS. She visits three clusters of schools in the county and we will be getting to do and learn a lot of fun things with her.
We are visiting the Urbana Volunteer Fire Department on Tuesday! We are really looking forward to our first field trip. I'll be sure to post pictures for you!
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