Learning Experiences

Reading- We continued working on sight word memorization this week. We learned about long and short vowel sounds. We applied our letter knowledge this week to tapping and spelling simple consonant-vowel-consonant words this week. We are working hard to hear the middle sound and choose the correct vowel as well as use correct letter formation as we spell. Reading groups are going well. Each group works on skills the children need to work on to become better readers like predicting, retelling the story, tapping words, practicing sight words, review letter names and sounds, and using picture clues to figure out unknown words.

Writing- We worked on stretching out or tapping words to make sure we write a letter for every sound we hear in the word. We continued to practice writing sentences with a capital at the beginning, words, word spaces, and punctuation.

Math: We continued building our number sense by playing games with 10 frames and breaking apart the number 10 into various combinations. We continue to practice counting skills. We got to start using our math books this week and will have more written work in math.

Science/ Social Studies- We enjoyed a Mystery Science video about if animals can laugh! We continued learning about weather. Mrs. Davison taught us about growth mindset and how our brains need to be challenged to learn!

Today our counselor, Mrs. Davison taught us about something so important…the growth mindset! We can do hard things to help our brains grow! We have to keep trying new things and we will keep getting smarter! Even grown ups can learn new things!

Reading- We continued working on capital letter formation and fine tuning our lower case letter formation. We also are practicing naming letters and sounds quickly and fluently. We are practicing using letter sounds to tap and read simple words.  We are also working on memorizing sight words. We read about lots of holidays like Christmas, Diwali, Las Posadas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Writing- We learned more about sentences this week. Sentences have several words, have a capital at the beginning and punctuation at the end. Sentences also tell one thought and have spaces between each word. We worked on using sight words we know how to spell to help us write sentences.

Math: We worked on breaking apart and putting together numbers this week. We also explored weight and capacity.

Science/ Social Studies- We enjoyed a Mystery Science video about why we need blood. Our cool tool this week was about respect.

We are learning all about weather! One of the best ways to learn about weather is to become a weather watcher! Today we went outside to do just that! We noticed what was in the sky, the temperature, the wind, and if there was any precipitation! We drew about what we learned.