November 13-17

Coming to you a couple days late, if you have had the luxury to hear the current state of my voice you would know why! Last week was a busy week, the class has loved to continue to develop our computer skills on various assignments on the Chromebook.

Language

We finished up working with the short A sound and introduced the short E. We did many rhyming activities, reading activities, writing in our writing notebooks, picture sorts, you name it! I also introduced the children to the website Starfall where they worked through at their various activities working on those two vowel sounds. 

Math

We have introduced addition to 10 last week. We will be only going up to ten here so that we can go through the various addition strategies with ease. We only practiced last week using ten frames and pictures. The students are doing wonderful so far. Next week (technically this week) I will be showing them different strategies in which to use during addition. My goal with my current approach is to ensure they are all confident before we move on the the bigger numbers in the new year.

Science

Time to learn about our senses. The children were introduced to the vocabulary and the parts of their bodies that they use in each sense. Last week we practiced hard at recognizing these new science words, for example how the word eye is not spelled like the I that we use in writing everyday.

Social

We finished looking at rights and responsibilities last week and introduced the concept of community. We defined a community as a place where people live, work and play. We will be continuing on with this concept this week.