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Week of April 8th-12th
Dear Parents,
Our first day back after break began with a day filled with eclipse activities. We did eclipse addition and subtraction. We did a write the room about the eclipse. We learned about the eclipse on some google slides and in a weekly reader magazine. We made eclipse hats. Then at the end of the day, the whole school went outside to see the eclipse. everyone was really great about keeping their glasses on. It was spectacular!
We also wrote in our journals about our vacations on Monday. Everyone is really improving with their writing!
Below are the activities we did earlier in the week:
Morning Meeting- This week during morning meeting we had many greetings. Two of these were greeting each other like flowers and with fingers like the rain. Our share was, "If you had to go without something for a month, would you choose desserts or video games." We had some of our favorite activities (Monkey dance, tranquil Tuesday yoga, and our Friday song-I Gotta Feeling.
Writing: On Monday we wrote in our journals about our weekend. Everyone wrote about the fun and wonderful things they did. At this point everyone is writing a simple sentence. Some of us need some support and others are doing this independently. Remember that reading and writing are developmental and everyone works at their own pace. Everyone is doing nicely writing in their lined journals.
Reading:
Splishy Sploshy- We focused on picture power and sound power. We discussed characters, setting, the problem and the solution in the story. We also picked out punctuation and worked on sight word recognition. We learned the sight word: they
Guided Reading-We worked in our guided reading groups again this week. Most groups came to read this week. One group did not meet with me since we had a short week. They will read with me on Monday. When you read with your children, please do not cover up the pictures. They are learning to look at the first letter of the word, then the picture and they ask themselves, What word would make sense here? Early on, at the kindergarten level, we do not practice sounding out words unless it is a CVC word (consonant-vowel-consonant). As they progress to first and second grade, they will learn the phonics rules and will be able to sound out words easily. For now, they need to learn the reading strategies.
Fundations: This week everyone took the unit 3 Fundations assessment. We will begin Unit 4 next week and the digraphs.
Centers: This week we worked in Literacy Centers, the centers were:
-Eclipse write the room
-CVC game
-sight word memory
-spring stories listening center
-read to self in library
-meet with teacher
-ipads (word families)
Math- This week we worked on number pairs and addition for 6 and 7. The class learned that the equal sign can be in the front of an addition sentence. ex. 6=4+2. They learned that the equal sign can also be replaced with the words: is the same as. 6 is the same as 4+2. We worked in math centers this week. When each group came to my table I gave them 6 counters. I showed them how I broke it apart into a group of 4 red and 2 yellow. I showed them my addition sentence 6=4+2. Then I asked them to break it apart in another way. Then they wrote their addition sentence.
The other centers were addition baseball, going on their mypath on iready and going on an iPad app and practicing addition and subtraction.
Science- This week we saw the eclipse! We read a weekly reader about it. We also did the next lesson in mystery science. We learned about the 4 seasons. We played 4 seasons bingo and discussed what some symbols associated with each season (scarf, watering can, beach towel, rake, etc...) We colored 4 pictures from each season and we will be making a book with them next week.
Have a great week ahead!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fishelman
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