Thursday, February 12, 2015
Reading with a Partner
In order to practice our reading skills in the classroom we are using partners to practice reading. These are books on each child's level. You can always have your child do this at home with you if you haven't already started it. When we are done reading I have been asking more detailed comprehension questions. We have been focusing in on describing the setting and then naming the main idea in the story. At the end of reading, I take the book away and ask the reader to start at the beginning and tell me all of the details they can remember. The kids really love to share their stories!
Friday, January 23, 2015
100th day fun in class!
What a great week in class! We wrapped up our celebration this week with a special snack made of ten sets of ten different items.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Happy 100th Day!
This week we are have been celebrating the 100th day of school with today as our official 100th day! We have read several stories about the number 100 and about the 100th day of school. Some of the activities we completed in class were: Draw selves as 100 year olds, this works on fine motor skills and language skills. We wrote about what we would buy if we had $100. This works on fine motor skills and writing skills. We tried to guess what 100 seconds would be like and then sat down when we thought it had been 100 seconds. This focused on math and time. The children have completed a 100 chart to work on number recognition skills. We are even going on a number search around the classroom. I have hidden the numbers 1-100 all over the room and have asked the children to go on a scavenger hunt to try to find them. We will wrap up our week with a 100th day snack where we make a snack using 10 different food items in sets of 10 to make 100. Our main focus this week is that 100 is 10 sets of 10. Have your child try to count to 100 for you by 5’s and 10’s. We have had fun trying that in the classroom. For a challenge, we tried to count by 2’s as well! Finally during writing time this week, we have been focusing on writing opinion and persuasive stories. The children were challenged with trying to write a story to persuade me to have a 100th day party. This was a fun activity and the arguments for a party were comical!
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Outside at Last!
The temperature wasn't quite warm enough for our entire recess time to be outside so to help break up our indoor recess "blues" we bundled up and took a quick walk around the school. So many of the kids were laughing and had a good time!
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