In shared reading this week we talked about "taking a picture walk," looking at each picture in the book and predicting what is happening and what words might be on each page. Then we read the story and notice our predictions, right or wrong. We also noticed repeating words and talked about how they help us read the story and understand it better.
At stations this week we got some new things at our stations and did:
Poetry
The fluency poem this week is In The Dark. We added in and see to the word wall. When the kiddos got done illustrating their poem they got to practice fine motor skills by lacing fall shapes. Practicing fine motor skills helps your kiddo develop the muscles in their hands and hand eye coordination.
Writing
At writing the kiddos could choose to label, write lists or match letters and record the matches. We are working hard to learn all of the letters in the alphabet.
Storytelling
We read The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. The kiddos retold using pictures and motions that went along with the story.
Star
At star station the kiddos worked on a pumpkin book inspired by Eric Carles Brown Bear, Brown Bear. Our book was Orange pumpkin, Orange pumpkin. The kids had to come up with fall or Halloween themed things for the pumpkin to see. They illustrated the picture and filled in the sentence " I see a __ looking at me."
Math
In math the kiddos counted pumpkins and wrote how many underneath.
Writing
We are continuing to practice our writing process- think of a topic, plan our story, sketch our story, label. We are trying to hear more sounds as we spell words. In fundations we learned letters d and s. We practiced how to form the letters the school way, we thought of different things that begin with each letter and we used magnetic letters to spell some consonant vowel consonant words using those letters.
Math
In math this week we worked on numbers to 10. We played a game called button botton. There was an "it" kiddo who told us what number to count to 6-10. They closed their eyes as we passed the button counting for each pass. When we get to the number we stop passing and "it" guesses who has the button. We noticed that if you count from the person who started with the button to the number, you could find out who had the button without guessing. We also did counting jar. In this activity the kiddos do 3 things. Count the number of things in a jar, represent that number using pictures and numbers, and count out that number of items.
