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| This week the morning class learned all about Jonas' favorite things! It was easy to see how much Jonas enjoys building with Legos! He also loves swimming and Star Wars. Jonas loves spending time with his family, especially when they go on vacation, and he did a great job sharing the photos he used to decorate his Me Box! |
Math
The students were excited to use their ladybug clocks this week to practice telling time to the hour. Thank you SO much for your help preparing them at home! They have come in handy during our math lessons this week! Please continue to use the ladybug clocks at home for practice telling time and even keep it handy for first grade when the children learn how to tell time to 5-minute intervals. Continued practice counting by 5's will help them be ready for this skill as well as counting nickels. The children learned a new game this week called High Roller. This game can be played by 2 players or in small groups. Players take turns. One player rolls 2 dice. The player keeps the die with the larger number (the High Roller) and throws the other die again. The player then counts on from the number rolled on the first die to get the sum of the two dice. For example, the player rolls a 4 and a 6. They keep the 6 and re-roll the 4 and get a 3. The player counts on to get a total and says, "6, 7, 8, 9." The goal of this game is to encourage the children to use the "counting on" strategy for addition, which requires them to name the number of dots on the first die and then count on using the second die. The children LOVED this game, and one student in the morning class even said, "This is the best game ever!" It's a fun an easy game to play at home! The children also brought home their May calendars this week. I love hearing about all of the ways the children are using their calendars at home! The highlight of the week in math was our Math Centers on Friday. A HUGE thank you to all of the parents who came to help with our centers. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to help the children practice their math skills!
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| Learning with our ladybug clocks |
Math Centers
Literacy
This week our read aloud stories and some of our writing focused on amazing creatures of the deep ocean. The children enjoyed listening to the stories Rainbow Fish, Big Al, and A House for Hermit Crab this week and learning about unique fish in the nonfiction book Fish Faces. The children in the morning class also enjoyed two stories read by Jonas's mom this week. Thank you! We also made mini-books about an octopus living in the ocean to add to our book bags along with a new sight word book to reinforce our new words--look and has. The children continue to add sight words to their word rings in their book bags. Please continue to practice these words at home. We want the children to recognize these words automatically when reading so they can use their energy to tackle more challenging words and to help them read more fluently. The children also worked on sorting words by word family and completed a sequencing and writing activity. A copy of our April song also came home this week. Here is the afternoon class singing it one more time!
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