Friday, March 8, 2024

Mo Willems Week 1


 We have has a fun week learning and reading books by Mo Willems, our favorite author! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week were packed with Mo Willems activities!  We found pigeon power words around the room and read/wrote them, played roll and dob a power word, explored blends games, sorted adjectives/describing words, described our favorite toy like Trixie did in Knufflebunny, wrote and drew vocabulary words from our reading unit, and so much more!

In this week’s lesson, we learned that taking time to feel calm before reacting is a helpful first step to solving a problem. Let your child see you taking a moment to feel calm at home when things are busy or stressful. For example, say, “Today was a really busy day. I’m going to take a few slow breaths to help me feel calm.” Invite your child to join you.

We worked on solving addition word problems to 10 in Math. We drew pictures, counted on our fingers, and drew on our ten frames to help us solve the problems. Please continue adding numbers at home with your child. 

We continued practicing reading and writing words with blends and digraphs during Phonics, We worked on long vowels as well. We will start learning about words with silent e in the coming weeks!

During Reading, we continued learning about baby animals by listening to the book Baby Zebras and discussed information we learned.  We wondered about the topic b bay zebras by sharing and writing "I wonder" statements.  We listened to and read a short story called The Little Fly. We made and confirmed prediction s to check for understanding, discussed the pattern in the story to build fluency and develop word recognition, and generated rhyming word lists. 

In Writing, we head, visualized, and discussed various poems.  We explored descriptive words (adjectives) and practiced writing poems of our own! 

In Science, we discussed force in motion, more specifically push and pull. We also planned out how we will create our galimotos next week. 

Looking ahead...

Parent Teacher Conferences-  3/12 and 3/14

Spring Break- 3/15-3/24

We started something this week where we have a kiddo of the day. It is just a fun way to make our friends feel special and fill buckets. 

Taking advantage of the beautiful weather and reading outside








Meeting with our literacy partners to introduce our books





Science- learning about force- push and pull and other movements that use force. We explored different materials and discussed what movements we used to get them from one person to another. 








Challenge word to practice our -ck rule... backpack

Filling in our Student Response Journals for Reading




Centers




More kiddos of the day



Exploring the materials and planning how we will engineer our galimotos

Guided Math


Our Mystery Reader this week was Adam's mommy and sister. We loved hearing Adam's favorite book from home. 






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