Week 11

This week, we reviewed the letters Mm and Nn. I had the students draw pictures that start with the corresponding letter. They did a great job!

Our close read of the week was The Little Red Hen.

We have been working on character, setting, problem and solution and drew them in response to the story.

We compared and contrasted the original version to this funny version.

We worked on the "at" word family and practiced blending and making new "at" words.

We began practicing different blends, digraphs, dipthongs and endings. All of these sounds have motions to help us learn how to spell these sounds.

Our sight words this week were "we" and "in".

In math, we worked on combinations of the number 6. We used a divided bag with counters to represent part/part/ whole. 

We began learning about 2D shapes. The first shape we learned was the triangle. We want students to learn the words "vertices" for corners and "edges" for sides. 

We had fun making Mr. Triangle.

In social studies, we visited the voter's booth at school. We talked about elections and read some books about voting. We applied our learning by voting on what we wanted to do during our inside recess.

In science, we learned that sound is another form of energy. We made vibrations with a tuning fork to see how sound travels.

We began learning about magnets as another form of energy. We read about magnets.

It was even more fun to explore with magnets. We learned that magnets have poles that will repel or attract. We also learned that things that are magnetic contain iron.

We also enjoyed playing in centers.