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| Curtis did a great job sharing his Me Box this week! The class loved his soccer medal and thought his badge from Disneyland was really neat! We learned that Curtis is a big sports fan. He enjoys playing basketball, baseball, and soccer. He is a big fan of Star Wars and Skylanders. Curtis enjoys spending time with his family, and he loves his stuffed monkey! |
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| The afternoon class loved learning about Xavier's favorite things this week! We learned that Xavier enjoys coloring and spending time with his family. He loved collecting shells and playing at the beach in Florida over spring vacation. He is a big fan of Skylanders, and he loves his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wallet. One of his favorite snacks is a peanut butter granola bar, and he likes spending time with his sister! |
Math
This week in math the students learned a new game called the "Plus and Minus Game!" In this game the children practiced both their addition and subtraction skills, but the major focus of this game was to help the children learn what numbers make a ten, such as 4 and 6, 3 and 7, 2 and 8, etc. This is a game we will play again soon! We also practiced reading and writing 2-digit numbers by rolling 2 dice. For example, we rolled a 2 and a 4 and were able to make the numbers 24 and 42. They did a GREAT job with this game! This week the students also had their first introduction to a number scroll. In first grade, the students will be making their own number scrolls where they practice writing their numbers in order beginning with the number 1 and going up as high as they can go. I shared my daughter's number scroll from first grade that went from the number 1 all the way up to 1,970. The looks on the children's faces when we kept unrolling the scroll were priceless! Although the students won't be making their scrolls until first grade, we got a jump start by practicing how to write our numbers from 1 up to 110. They did an unbelievable job with this activity!
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| The Plus and Minus Game |
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| The Plus and Minus Game |
Literacy
The children added two new books to their at home collections this week--a new sight word book and a mini book about how flowers grow. We learned about sunflowers this week during our read aloud time and read a wonderful book about a boy who plants a circle of flowers in his garden to make a sunflower house for he and his friends to play in all sum mer called The Sunflower House. The kids loved this story and were so excited to make their own sunflowers using their handprints for petals. They are adorable! The children continue to strengthen their writing skills during Writer's Workshop and are growing by leaps and bounds! This week the students wrote about their weekend adventures, and they wrote expository pieces about how to plant a flower. They did some writing to sequence and retell a story about a duck who goes outside to play on a rainy day. They did a super job with this writing activity!
Centers
Just a few snapshots of some of the centers the students worked in during guided reading group time this week!
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| Pattern Blocks |
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| Reading Big Books |
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| Lego Center |
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