In Language Arts this week, our writing assignment asked us to brainstorm and make opinions about what we can do for others and nice things we can say to others to "fill their buckets". We learned that if we follow these rules, we will stay happy and our own buckets will stay full! In phonics, we learned about the sounds/a/, /m/, /p/, /s/, and /t/ but focused mostly on the short /a/ sound.We saw this sound in our spelling words for this week and even took a dictation test on them! The stories Pam and Sam and NatCan Jump helped us practice these sounds more fluently and work on our comparing/contrasting and comprehension.
In math, we continued to work with bundles of ten but we began addition as well. We learned the definition of teen numbers and used ten frames as a strategy to add teen numbers together. We also began working on the concept of taking away for subtraction too. Similar to the bucket fillers, the Bully Free Classroom concept we worked on this week was saying positive comments to others.When we say positive things, others feel happy. When we all feel happy, we are better able to do our work and have the ability to work in groups and independently. We are not able to do our best work when we are upset. Can't wait for next week!
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In math this week, we had to make bundles of ten and understand that ten ones are just one group of ten. To practice making bundles of ten, each table had to work together to sort through cards with "cupcakes" on them and create a box of 10. The above picture is an example of one table's bundle. To continue practicing tens, tables had to work together to investigate a number card and decide how many more are needed to make a bundle using that number.
In Language Arts, we made tree maps (a thinking map) to brainstorm what is special about us. We learned so many amazing things about our classmates! We focused on two categories: ourselves and our families. When our tree maps were finished, we created an " All About Me" foldable book. We could make our book about ourselves or our family. These activities are helping to prepare us for the unit 1 theme in Treasures (Language Arts curriculum), "What Makes You Special?". Parents: See our Room 5 Class Dojo stories for more pictures! The first week of school was great! We got to read Pete The Cat Rocking In My School Shoes. He helped us brainstorm how we felt on the first day of school. We will finish next week, but at least we got to color our own shoes that we rocked for the first week of school! We also started reading about Bono The Monkey and what his behavior was like in school. Lastly, it was fun to learn about our classmates and what we had in common.
Parents: If you would like to learn more about Pete The Cat, you can head to www.harpercollinschildrens.com/petethecat for some fun! It was wonderful to meet all the new students in room 5 and their parents! The back to school class letter and packet is available on the home screen. Please return all necessary paperwork this week that needs to be signed by a parent or guardian!
Today we practiced remembering our colors, letters, and numbers to 100. We also did a fun scavenger hunt around the classroom to learn more about it and where we go when we need something! We reviewed most of the classroom/school procedures, routines, and rules. We also made our "helping hands" that will tell us our classroom job/responsibility for the week. If you would like to see pictures from our adventures today, please join our Class Dojo community and view the "stories" page. I will not post pictures of students or student work on here because this is a public website. Once parents return the signed form stating that student work may be shared, I will start sharing more pictures on here of all the fun things we are doing. |
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