We welcomed everyone back after a wonderful fall break. This week the students are learning more about the Reformation, especially since it is the 500th anniversary. They started to color in a "Reformation A-Z" book. Today we learned how Jesus died for all and how much Martin Luther wanted people to know that. A is for all. B is for Bible. 500 years ago not many people could have afforded a Bible of their own and even if they could have, they probably could not have read it because it was not written in their language. Martin Luther thought that was important and he translated the Bible into German, the language of the people where he lived.
We began a new set of literacy centers today. Students are making cards and learning to write letters. They are practicing sequencing how to make a cake. At another center the students match uppercase and lowercase letters. At the phonemic awareness center the students are breaking words apart into individual sounds. This is tricky for many as it is a common mistake to combine sounds. At the word work center the students are playing a game to help break a word into the onset and rime. Then they substitute the onset with another sound. For instance, the students are given the word bat. They use a little turkey to cover up the b. (They cover the onset.) What is left is the rime chunk -at. Then they spin the spinner to replace b with another letter such as m. Then they read the new word mat. We are beginning a thematic unit on pumpkins. We will do a number of activities with pumpkins throughout the week and beginning of next week. In addition to this theme the students will practice the sound of /p/ and learn to print Pp in correct form. During the afternoon the students listened to a variety of books about the life cycle of a pumpkin. We sequenced its growth. It was also fun to watch some videos about the growth of pumpkins. This morning we enjoyed making "flipped out" pumpkins. You will have to come see these creations in the hallway to the right of our classroom door. These creative pumpkins are a special way to show both negative and positive space. We continue to work on numbers in the teens. Today we focused on number 14. It is important to know that numbers in the teens are a set of ten and so many more ones. I had the students tell me how many places to move ahead from 10 to get to certain numbers in the teens. Tomorrow we will play another game to help us practice building numbers in the teens. Comments are closed.
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