A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone had a great weekend! Please enjoy a quick update on the wonderful learning that took place in our classroom last week!

Announcements:

Star Student

This week we will celebrate our first Star Student in Room 202! If your child has not returned their Star Student poster to school, please have them do so as soon as possible so that they are able to share it with their class during their special week. Thank you!

Sight Word Practice

Thank you SO much for all of your support with the sight word practice logs that were sent home a few weeks ago! I continue to be impressed with how hard the children are working at home to practice and learn their sight/snap words! Please note that at this point, the students have only been introduced to the words up to "from" and "do". I certainly do not expect the children to be practicing every sight word flashcard each night, as the complete set of words does not need to be mastered until the end of the year. Starting this week I will include which sight words were introduced in class in the literacy portion of my blog post. Feel free to add in these new words to your sight word rotation for the following week. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like a complete list of the words that have been introduced in class thus far. :)

Curriculum Update:

Literacy

Last week in literacy the students were introduced to two new sight words: from, and do. In Fundations the children gained more practice with tapping out CVC words such as mud, hat, and pig. We also reviewed the letter formation for uppercase letters I-P. In Reader's Workshop we continued to practice our "pattern power" and were on the lookout for times when the author surprised us by changing the pattern in the books that we read. We learned that sometime you need to use two or three other reading superpowers to tackle a pattern break!

Another exciting part of our week was starting Literacy Centers! This new part of our morning routine gives the students the opportunity to work independently while practicing important skills and concepts that have been introduced in class. Last week's center activities included two sight word centers, Write the Room, and Listening Center (on our chrome books of course!).

Math

Last week in math we completed a short unit on graphing! Since graphing is something we practice each day during our calendar time, the children were already experts and we were able to jump right into some graphing fun! We reviewed that graphs are a kind of chart that can give us information. We also learned about different types of graphs such as bar graphs and pictographs!

After reading the story What Pet Would You Get? by Dr. Seuss, the class have a blast asking each other what type of pet THEY would get and creating a bar graph to show their results.

Writing

We continued to practice sequence, or "How To" writing last week. Since we are still at the beginning of the unit, we spent much of our time completing teacher led and shared writing experiences. In the upcoming week your child will begin to tackle "How To" writing more independently as they will pick their own topics to write and draw about!

A highlight of Writer's Workshop was getting to write our own "How To" for making slime! After carefully writing each step, we decided to follow our directions and make slime ourselves! It was definitely a fun way to end our week!

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