Our Busy Week

It’s only Wednesday and the kids have already gotten so many things learned and accomplished! They have become such great workers—it’s so neat to see the growth that has taken place in them! This week we have been reviewing all our letters and sounds.  We have also been focusing on all things WINTER! We read The Mitten by Jan Brett on Monday and talked about the sequence of events that happened in the story. They were able to tell me which animals came into the mitten first, second, third…etc. They will be bringing home mittens they made with their own animals so they can retell the story to you using their “props.”

                

Tuesday we talked about things we see in the winter.  I had a big chart where we recorded all our answers.  The students told me something they saw in the winter and then they all helped me spell the word by sounding out the letters. AWESOME! They loved being able to tell ME how to do something! They came up with lots of great answers and we finished with this sentence activity:

The students completed a worksheet with these sentences and filled in the words “the” and “see.” Ask them to read their sentences to you this weekend!

Today we read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Peter, the main character, does many fun things in the snow. We made text to self connections by thinking of things we do in the snow that Peter did too! They did a great job of making connections from the book to their own lives!

  

Peter made a snow angel. I made a snow angel.

LAST THING! In Math we are working hard on counting and recognizing the “teen” numbers.  They are very good at counting them, now we just need to be able to write them! This counting hat page was a good start! We are also working on counting to 100 by 10’s.