Friday, December 8, 2023

Jan Brett Author Study

 


What a busy week we've had! We started our Jan Brett author study and have loved reading her books! Here are some of the important things we've learned...

Our centers this week included:

Reading Group
RAZKids on iPads
Theme center- We sequenced the animals in The Mitten and we retold the story of The Hat.
Independent Reading center
ABC center- We played CVC games.
Sensory center- We played "Say It, Pop It, Write It" with power words.
Write the Room center- We read sentences around the room and matched them to pictures.
Word Work center- We completed CVC words and found and recorded middle sounds in CVC words.

In this week’s Second Step lesson, we showed that we can use body language and context clues to figure out how someone is feeling. We also showed we can use slow breathing as a way to help ourselves feel calm when we encounter strong feelings. Ask your child to tell you how they think others around them might be feeling, for example a sibling or a character in a story, a movie, or a TV show.

We continued working on uppercase letters in Phonics.  We also practiced the power words to, go, no, and so. We switched beginning sounds to build new words and matched words into word families. 

During Reading, we visualized the poem "It Fell in the City". We discussed which words helped us make pictures in our minds.  We also used the illustrations in the story Red Sled to discuss what was happening in the book. We echo read with attention to characters' feelings to build oral fluency and discussed the typography to build our concepts of print. We practiced visualizing while reading independently.  Finally, we learned these vocabulary words: grasp, observe, evening, and noiseless. 

In Writing, we heard and discussed good writing.  We wrote about our feelings and told our ideas orally before writing. We worked on writing from left to write and leaving spaces between our words.  We also used our word wall to help us. 

We continued learning about flat and solid shapes in Math. 


Looking ahead...

Holiday Happiness Drive ends 12/18

Home 2 Home Orphanage supplies due 12/18 (Thank you SO much for your generosity and support!) 

Winter Party 12/20

Early Release Day 12/20

Winter Break 12/21-1/3

School Resumes 1/4


Have a great weekend!


Social Studies





Choice time fun 






Phonics

Independent Reading

Centers







Finding Nemo Jr.- Middle Schoolers came and performed for us. They did AMAZING!




We got to have some KR friends today when we sprinkled :)




Our Mystery Readers this week were... My daughters, Olivia and Logan. They were SO SO excited to come and read to all of your lovely kiddos that they hear all about!






They also loved helping during writing






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