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Reading
This week in shared reading we continued to read different versions of The Gingerbread Man. We talked about characters, setting, and the ending. We compared the story we read each day to ones we read previously.
We added look and at to the word wall this week.
At literacy stations we worked on
Word Work
We did shadow writing this week at the word work station. Shadow writing is focusing on handwriting. All the kiddos have to do is copy the words in each sentence. This activity takes away some of the stress of spelling independently so the kiddos can just focus on their handwriting.
Math
We have been working on numbers to 20 in math and this activity has the kiddos counting and matching numbers using 20's frame.
Star
At star station this week the kiddos got to play candy land where we practiced taking turns and playing cooperatively. Or the kiddos could play a beginning letter sound matching game.
Poetry
Our fluency poem this week is Gingerbread Rap. After the kiddos added the poem to their poetry notebook and illustrated it they could play a beginning letter sounds game. The kiddos put gingerbred cookies on the baking sheet, each cookie has a picture on it. After the cookies are "baked" the kids can put them on the plate that matches the decorations beginning letter.
Storytelling
We have been reading the gingerbread man during shared reading so this week at storytelling the kiddos are retelling the gingerbread man using a story map. They cut out the pictures and put them into the correct order.
Word Work
In fundations this week we practiced writing x and y. We also practiced their sounds. On Thursday and Friday we played a sight word game similar to hangman. The kids used the word wall to come up with a word, put that many letter spaces down. Then they called on kiddos in the class to guess letters. If the guess was right the "teacher" put the letter in the correct spot. If the letter guessed was wrong the "teacher" wrote it under the word and added an ornament to the tree. This activity does so much to help kiddos learn their sight words. They have to count letters in words, focus on where the letters are in the words and really use the whole word wall to be able to guess the word. We had so much fun playing this game!
Writing
This week in writing we continued to talk about adding details to our story and adding more words. We talked about being brave spellers and trying to write as many sounds as we could. We are practicing stretching out words slowly and writing the sounds. We are also using the word wall to find letters or words to help tell our story.
Math
In math this week we continued to learn about numbers to 20. We used a 20's frame (two 10's frames stacked on top of each other) to make numbers 11-20. During this activity we touched on place value by talking about how the first tens frame is the 1 in front of each teen number and the number in the second tens frame is the second number. We turned ourselves into elves and helped pack up toys. Each kiddo was given a specific number to pack, wrote that number on our hat and went to pack that many toys.
We played a gingerbread bingo game with numbers in the teens. We also used a picture of a gingerbread house to graph how many of each candy were on it. Then we used the graph to record how many pieces of each candy were on the gingerbread house.
