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Sunday, March 10, 2024

First Week in March: March 4-8th (Four Day Week, No School Friday-Staff Day)


Sharing her narrative piece about her family.


Quiet Time Choice: Color By Sight Word (I, like, to, play, in, the).



A fun read-aloud!




Reading group work with Mrs. Cornell.
Practicing strategies to solve unknown words.
Using all their super powers to be good readers.


Math: Subtraction using a number line.


Math
Number Scroll Work.
Becoming familiar with the patterns in the 110-number grid.

Choice Time: Math Table
Pattern block trays and pattern block exploration.


Triangle trays are new at Choice Time.


Hexagon trays are new.

The children are enjoying drawing leprechauns.



Writing
Completing a birthday page for the next classmate's birthday which we will celebrate on Monday!




One of my favorite read-alouds for this time of year!



Applying learned phonic skills in text.
This series of readers has three stories in each of the books. 


Phonics: Word Study (for).
Independent work: Popcorn worksheet (for).



Short (i) CVC work.





Handwriting: Capital H & K.


Chalkboards: wet try

Chalkboards:dry try.


Wooden sticks are used for modeling.


Feel the wet K.


Completing pages for capital H & K in her handwriting book.


Phonics work: short (o).
Writing CVC words with short (o).
Say the word (picture), write the beginning, middle, and ending sound.
Say it again as needed.





Many of the leprechaun drawing are hung on a bulletin board in the classroom.





Choice time: a talking hen!
The fun story Rosie's Walk may have inspired this drawing!


Writing: Finishing pages for the next classmate's birthday!





Wednesday Morning's field trip to Cape Elizabeth High School.
We were given the opportunity to see the play Charlotte's Web!
The children enjoyed the play!  It was well done!
Thank you to Erik Lema (John's dad) for going with us and chaperoning!
Special thanks to Jamie Parsons (First Grade Teacher) for arranging this play for us!


Quiet Time Option: Color By Number (numbers 27-35).




Read Aloud: Mentor Teat for the How-To Writing Unit.




















Writing
We have started a new unit!
We have begun learning about How-To Writing.


She. is working on her planning page.


What do I know how to: Make, Do, Play?
She  is generating ideas and sketching them to help plan for her first How-To Book.


Math
Skip counting by fives.
Highlighting by fives to one hundred.
Kindergarten Goal: Skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s.
















Hearing and Recording Sounds with Mrs. Cornell.
When working with your child at hone to spell please ask them to say the word aloud themselves (as many times as needed to produce beginning, middle and ending sounds).
Research believes that this helps their brain.


Typically yoga is offered as a choice on Thursday's during Quiet Time.
This Cosmic Yoga is a new one that they liked: Clover the Lucky Cat! 


They enjoyed the story and the body movements.


Phonics 
Short (u) in CVC words.


Independent work: Missing CVC Words (short u).
The children are being encouraged to write lowercase letters with the formation they have been taught.
All lowercase letters have been introduced and taught formally.
They know which ones should be tall, small, or tail letters.
It would be great if you could encourage this when at home as well!


Choice time: iPads.
She is practicing addition.


Choice time: Easel.
Working side by side, but on their own drawings.


Choice Time: Thin marker coloring. Mindful Coloring of tiny spaces.


These shamrocks are turning out beautiful!


You will probably see these coming home this week.
The children work on them a little at a time.

Next Week:

Wednesday, March 13th:

Friday, March 15th:
and

An Irish Dance Presentation



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