A Peek At Our Week!

Last week was a busy one in our classroom! Please take a moment to enjoy a few of the highlights below!

Important Dates:

January 17th:
Professional Development Day
No School for Students

January 20th:

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

No School

Curriculum:

Literacy

Last week in Literacy we read the story Little Quack by Lauren Thompson and discussed the question, "When is a time you felt proud?". We also practiced reading two new sight words: look and see!

In Fundations the children were introduced to the concept of "tapping out" the sounds they hear in words. Click here to learn more about tapping!

The class had a great time creating their own paper duck projects at the Creation Station center last week.

Math

In math be began Topic 13 which focuses on sorting. We learned that object can be sorted by various attributes including color, size, shape, and texture!

The students above enjoyed sorting objects such as pom poms, gems, pattern blocks, buttons, and bears at the Sorting Station Center last week!

The class had a blast sorting their shoes by size, color, and type after reading the story Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes.

Writing

It was an exciting time in our classroom last week as we began a new unit in our Lucy Calkins program! The focus of this unit will be "How To" writing, and the children are already having a great time sharing things they know how to do! After many days of discussing, modeling, and practicing we wrote our first "How To" together on Friday. 

The class LOVED writing the steps for how to make slime, and did a wonderful job reading their work to their second grade buddies!

As a fun "Grand Finale" we followed our own directions to make slime!

In addition to the Lucy Calkins program, your child is also receiving direct instruction with sentence writing and learning the important components of a sentence which include an uppercase letter at the beginning, punctuation at the end, and the use of finger spaces between their words. Writing prompts like the one seen above will be used during our Monday center rotations.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to see all that is new in Room 202!