This week we continued to review some concepts about print (text) to help us with our literacy skills. Students are now able to explain the difference between a letter, word and sentence successfully. We are now working on being able to know which letters are small, tall (stretch high) and fall (dip below the writing line) when writing. This is important for their writing as it increases legibility and also helps them be able to write the letters automatically so they can focus on the thought they are trying to transfer to paper.
We have built our read to self stamina to 18 minutes! We are 2 minutes away from our goal! THIS IS AWESOME!! We have built our stamina for read to someone to 8 minutes.
Also this week we worked on comparing numbers to see which is more, less and the same as. A simple game to play at home to reinforce this concept is to use a deck of cards (without face cards). Split the deck into two piles (one for you and one for your child). You both flip the cards over and compare the two numbers. The higher number wins the hand. Then you can ask your child to figure out how far away the number is from the number 10. This game is called Closest To Ten. We also started working on creating tally charts to compare numbers. Have your child practice making groups of 5 with the tally marks. One way to do this is to give them a handful of cereal or something small to count and tally.
Related Arts Next Week:
Monday - Art
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Library
Thursday - P.E.
Friday - Art
Upcoming Dates:
Sept 18th - Fall Picture Day
Sept 19th - Field Trip Form and Money Due
Sept. 26th - Field Trip
We have built our read to self stamina to 18 minutes! We are 2 minutes away from our goal! THIS IS AWESOME!! We have built our stamina for read to someone to 8 minutes.
Also this week we worked on comparing numbers to see which is more, less and the same as. A simple game to play at home to reinforce this concept is to use a deck of cards (without face cards). Split the deck into two piles (one for you and one for your child). You both flip the cards over and compare the two numbers. The higher number wins the hand. Then you can ask your child to figure out how far away the number is from the number 10. This game is called Closest To Ten. We also started working on creating tally charts to compare numbers. Have your child practice making groups of 5 with the tally marks. One way to do this is to give them a handful of cereal or something small to count and tally.
Related Arts Next Week:
Monday - Art
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Library
Thursday - P.E.
Friday - Art
Upcoming Dates:
Sept 18th - Fall Picture Day
Sept 19th - Field Trip Form and Money Due
Sept. 26th - Field Trip