Today we started learning about the time when God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses to give to the people. While Moses was with God, the people forgot about God and started to create and worship a false god. The same thing happens today. Often people put other things in front of God and do not put the one true God first. Thanks be to God that He forgives us and draws us back to Him.
We started a new set of literacy centers this week. Students are taking an apple survey, making a turkey book to not only sequence steps, but to figure out the new word in the sentence by getting their mouths ready to make the first sound and then check the picture to see what would make sense for the word. They continue with some alphabet puzzles that match first sounds. At another center they are playing a rhyming game. They also get to have fun as they stamp some farm words.The students made an emergent reader to practice the sight word "look". It was fun to make the two o's in the middle of look appear like eyeballs to help everyone remember the sight word "look". In Math the students are using a count and check method to verify the number of objects. It is important to not skip an object or to count it twice. We are learning to be careful to only say one number word for each object. Finally the students learned about fall leaves. They watched a video to help learn that the job of leaves is to make food. In the fall, this job stops and we can see all the colors that were there before.. If you have not sent in the leaf collection bag, please do that tomorrow. We will be using them for a discrimination activity during Science tomorrow. The students are enjoying our leaf thematic centers this week. Not only are they learning about leaves, but the centers incorporate Reading, Math, Science, Art, and many more standards into the fun fall topic. At the blue table the students are having fun designing a fall tree as they trace their hand and arm to make a tree. Then they strengthen fine motor skills as they decorate the trees with tissue paper that they pinch and crush with their fingers. By gluing the little pieces they are working on eye and hand coordination. They add their own creative touch as they decide how they are going to glue the leaves around their photo. You will have to look for these in the hallway soon. At the green table the students are making a sight word book to go with fall leaves. The yellow table gives a review of number words as the students make a special leaf book. It is fun for them to use rubbing crayons to make a leaf for the cover. They decorate the pages with the number of leaves needed to match the number words. Throughout the book there are leaf rubbings, stamps, tracings & cutouts, stickers, drawings, etc. At the red table the students are practicing the correct formation of Ll, printing a sentence with proper spacing and form, making an L picture dictionary, and writing stories about leaves. Comments are closed.
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