Sept. 25, 2009

This week we read different versions of the 3 Little Pigs. We did some comparing and contrasting. We made 3 pig and a wolf puppets. We also made our scenery. We used these tools to practice retelling the story. We also retold the story making a little book with pictures.

We have been learning different Nursery Rhymes. We have been acting them out. We have been finding sight words in the rhymes. We have been finding the rhyming words. We have been looking for letters in them. We have made a few mini books with Nursery Rhymes to take home to read.

We have had 4 days of writer's workshop this week. We have been talking about how to write a story. Some kids are drawing pictures to tell their stories, some are adding a few letters and some are writing a few words. It has been fun getting starting on this writing adventure.

We have started Read to Self (independent reading). We have learned that we can read books 3 ways- read the words, read the pictures or retell the story. We have all gotten a special "office" spot in the classroom to read quietly in. We have learned that when we are reading to self we are *reading quietly, *reading the whole time, *staring right away and*staying in our spot. We are practicing being good readers.

In math, we have spent a lot of time counting forwards and backwards. We have been practicing writing numbers and finding numbers. We have played a few dice games this week with counting and adding 2 numbers up to 12.

In Science, we are talking about the Season of Fall. We have discussed the changes that happen in fall and why they happen. We have read some books and done a few art projects.

It has been a fun week!