Happy Birthday to Milla!
Reading
This week in shared reading we talked about charts in books. We noticed how they helped to "sum up" what we just read and we practiced using them to help remember things that we were told from.
In literacy stations we:
Poetry- we added Wash Wash Wash Your Hands poem to our poetry notebooks. When the kiddos finished the poem they could complete a rhyming train.
Word Work- we completed a little reader, The Mitten. We read The Mitten last week in our storytelling station and this week the kids worked on this book by completing the sentences, "In went the (animal from the book)."
Writing- The kids can label, write a list, make a card, write a story, or write the beginning sound to some winter pictures.
Star- The kids have had so much fun stringing letters on pipe cleaners to spell word wall words.
Reading- This station never changes the kids can always read from their book bins or our classroom library.
Computer- the kids love pebblego.com. It is a free/ no subscription/no login website that reads non-fiction books to the kiddos!! This goes right along with our writing unit- All About books.
Math
Last week (and some of this week) we started a measurement unit in math. We measured length using non-standard forms of measurement (blocks, craft sticks, paperclips, etc.) We tried to measure things with our hands, but noticed that the number we got changed depending on the persons hand. We realized that it doesn't really matter what you measure with as long as the thing you measure with does not change size. We measured things in the room using craft sticks and measured things on paper with cubes. We will complete the measuring unit (weight and capacity) later.
This week we started learning about numbers to 100! We talked about estimating. We used pictures to help us compare and estimate which picture is closer to the number being requested. We also talked about numbers to 30.
Word Work
We learned about another secret story- super sonic blender. The letters went into the blender and someone left it on too long so the letters go stuck together and now they must make their sounds together. We are reading the blends chart everyday and choosing one blend to come up with words for. We are continuing to practice handwriting and stretching out words by writing the blend words we come up with on white boards. We are working so hard on hearing many sounds in words!
Health
We learned about germs this week. We found out that germs are so small we can't see them without a special machine called a microscope. Even though they are so small they are what make us sick. We looked at lots of germs and even created our own. We talked about hand washing, using soap and rubbing our hands while we sing the ABC's. Then rinse our hands in the warm water and the germs go down the drain. We also talked about how germs spread when we sneeze or cough. We saw first hand how germs spread by putting "germs" on our hands and shaking each others hands. Pretty soon everyone had germs on their hands!! We now know that we should wash our hands if we sneeze or cough, before we eat, and after we use the restroom.
