This week we will begin every day with devotions in the sanctuary with our whole student body. We are doing this to celebrate National Lutheran Schools' Week. Following devotions this morning our chapel buddies came into our room and they read Bible stories to us. We enjoyed the time learning about Jesus with them.
After our chapel buddies left we reviewed the time that Jesus blessed the little children and how He wanted them to come to Him. He is never too busy for us either. We began a new rotation of literacy centers. We continue to work on both initial and final sounds of words. The kids are taking a survey to determine who likes candy or cards. At the Reading table the students are learning to look for chunks or little words in bigger words to help them decode longer words. They made a fun "chunky monkey" craft to go with it. The word work table also provides the students with a spinner game to practice onsets and rimes. We will be practicing letter Qq this week and focusing on its /kw/ sound along with its formation. It is important to discriminate q in its different fonts and know the difference between p and q. Later in the afternoon the students learned how our number system is based upon 10. We are beginning a unit on place value and will focus on how the numbers in the teens are made up of a set of ten and so many ones. We are also beginning a money unit. I read a book about the penny to the students and then they cut out a heads side and a tails side and glued them together. We will be using a set of coins to help us learn to recognize the coins and their values. Later we also had fun learning about the growth of penguins. We learned about a rookery, molting, down, etc. It was fun to watch a movie to learn more about these cute animals. Finally we listened to a classic story called The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The students sequenced some of the events in the story. Comments are closed.
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