Today we began learning about the miracle Jesus performed when He fed 5000 people. Through His miracles He showed that He loves people, cares for their needs, and that He is God. Many in class correctly identified that He did these miracles to show His love and care, but most did not realize that in these miracles Jesus showed that He is God who has all the power.....especially the power to save us from sin. We enjoyed watching a couple of videos about this miracle to imagine what it may have been like to be there. Then we had fun singing a song to act out the story.
This week during literacy centers we will be focusing on authors and illustrators. We picked a couple of books to focus on: If You Give a Pig a Pancake and Rosie's Walk. We noticed that in one story the words tell the same story as the pictures. However in the second story the words only tell half the story. The illustrations show another story about a fox. We will continue to discuss how illustrators have a very important role to not only support the author's words, but to help tell the story as well. They help us think, anticipate, infer, comprehend, etc. The illustrations are very important to reading comprehension. In the afternoon we looked for book covers that helped us to learn about authors and illustrators. Then we went to a number of author and illustrator websites to help us learn more about them. It was fun for us to write a "Meet the Illustrator" paragraph. We may display these at our Authors' Tea. We also read a special newspaper about Mo Williams and learned what he does in the process to write and illustrate books. It was fun to watch a video about planning and writing books. As a special treat from me, those students that read all of the first and second trimester words will receive a special book by Mo Williams where they can learn to illustrate and plan stories to write like him. If your child did not master his/her words yet, keep practicing and I will retest and then give your child this special book. I plan on having these books in the Friday Folder with the report card. Our literacy centers include: sequencing If You Give a Pig a Pancake, sequencing and putting sentences together for Rosie's Walk, playing a memory match game to identify matching vowel sounds in words, playing a spinner game to practice the digraphs ch, sh, and th, and using labels to insert into sentence frames and practice the proper formation of sentences. In Math we reviewed counting by tens and we predicted how many students we would need to show 100 fingers. We found out that we needed 10 kids. Then the students made drawings of ten kids with ten fingers each to get to 100. They labeled their drawings with 10, 20, 30 ,40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. So they learned that you need 10 sets of 10 to make 100. Comments are closed.
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