Arctic Animals

 We had a lot of fun his week learning about arctic animals! Here are some of the important things we learned..

Our centers this week included finding and writing power words and arctic words, completing various activities with blends and digraphs, writing about arctic animals, playing power word games, and completing a science experiment involving a blubber glove! Ask your child to tell you all about it! 

 During Phonics, we revisited the letters and sounds for e, w, z, and v. We learned four new power words: we, be, he, and me.  We read a story called Ten Red Hens and wrote about it.  We also worked on digraphs (ch, sh, th, and wh) and the word ending -ck. 

Our reading lessons this week taught us to listen to, wonder about, and discuss the story A Big Mooncake for Little Star to build comprehension. We also read a poem together and identified rhyming words. We reviewed the power words we learned so far and practiced reading and writing them. You can find the power words by clicking the tab at the top of the blog! Our vocabulary words this week were: nibble, twinkle, enormous, and tiptoe.

During Writing, we learned that a professional author tells more in their writing. We used the story When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry as a mentor text. We wrote about wheat we do when we get really angry.  We sounded out our words and wrote the sounds we heard and practiced adding more to our stories.  We shared our stories with our class. 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we showed what we've learned about kindness and the power of kind acts to help people feel good. We drew ourselves doing a kind act for someone at school. Ask your child to show or tell you about their drawing of doing a kind act for someone at school. Encourage them to draw a picture of themselves doing a kind act at home too.

We continued working on addition problems to 10 during Math and learned how to write an addition equation/sentence using plus and minus. 

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Looking ahead...

No School (Teacher Professional Development) 1/16

No School in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1/19

No School (Teacher Professional Development) 2/13

No School for President's Day 2/16

Showing ways to be kind

Science- we discussed galimotos and then talked about how some of our toys have a purpose

Reading- filling in our Student Response journals about our favorite part from the read aloud- Big Mooncake for Little Star

Centers, including Guided Reading groups

Math games- double compare. Ask your child to teach you how to play. All you need is a deck of cards

Interactive Writing- writing facts about polar bears while reminding ourselves how to spell "they" and "have"

More centers

We had a lesson this month with Mrs. Gartenberg on the difference between tattling and telling.

Writing

TGames at Choice Time have been a big hit lately. If anyone ever has games they are ready to part with, our board game closet would appreciate it!