Jan. 9

It has been a busy week! Sorry I have not been keeping up with my blog this week. I will summarize what we did this week.
Morning Meeting-This week we did the Pippa Pig song for movement activities along with winter songs. We shared fun things we did over break and our favorite unthinkable. We did Surprise Sack and Letter Bucket daily.
Specials-We had stations in Phy. Ed. We made a clay pot in art this week.
Read Aloud-We read many books this week including "Puppies in the Snow", "The Snowy Day", "The Stranger in the Woods", The Twelve Days of Winter.
Shared Reading-We read lots of winter poems this week including; The Snowman, Snowflakes Falling Down, and Hickory Dickory Dock. We do different things with our shared reading. One day we found sight (star) words in the poem. One day we picked words out of the poem and practicing sounding out letter sounds and blending words.
Literacy Activities-We had read to self almost every day this week. Our students are getting to be such good readers. We read between 5-10 minutes a day. I try to meet with 2 students each time we read to listen to their reading. We had read to a partner one time this week. We also had stations one day this week. Our stations included: writing the letter Pp, finding the letter Pp in the Pippa Pig song and around the room, completing a journal page and a cutting activity.
Writer's Workshop-I am amazed with the writing happening in our room! WOW! This week we had writer's workshop 4 out of the 5 days. Our mini lessons included adding sound words, adding feelings to our stories, writing in sequence, writing more ideas, using a period and putting spaces in between our words. After our mini lessons, we write fro 15 minutes in our independent working spots. I conference with 2 students a day during that time. Then we try to take a few minutes to share. This week we had the students who sit on the red and yellow tape share along with a few other students who did such a good job writing that I wanted to shared their work too!
Rest Time-We are still reading our chapter book "The Magic School Bus and the Dinosaur Detectives."
Math-We did calendar every day and our calendar books three days this week. On Wednesday we played the disappearing train game. We practiced counting, adding, subtracting and number writing. On Thursday we talked about sequence and temperature. We did a snowman sequence project. We also read a story about the number 0. We practiced writing the word and making the numeral zero. On Friday we read a book about the number 1. Then we practiced writing the number and word one.
Social Skills-We finished learning about all of the unthinkables this week. Then we read the story Superflex. The super hero, superflex, saved the citizens of Social Town from Rockbrain. Rockbrain is the unthinkable that makes people get stuck on one idea. The kids are loving this unit! It is a fun way to learn about social skills.
Other-Today we made a "Winter Window". We drew a picture on a square piece of paper and then we framed it with construction paper to make a window. They will be up at conference time for you to enjoy.
Have a good weekend!