Ms. Vanderwel's Room

We have been as busy as elves in Santa's shop this week! Take a look at what we have been up to! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Language Arts we have been working on Stretchy Sentences using the 5W's. We watched a video explaining what stretchy sentences are and then worked through some examples as a group. Then the students worked on writing some stretchy sentences on their own.  We also continued to work on building words using our moveable alphabet cards listening for the number of sounds we heard and matching those sounds to the correct letters. Finally students had to then blend the sounds together to figure out the word they had made.  In math, we have been working on counting numbers by 2s to 20 and backwards from 20 to 0 by 1s. Students have also been exploring basic addition using counters and ten frames. They have learned what the term addition means (i.e. putting things together or getting more) and how to wri...

Hello Everyone! I hope you have been enjoying the warmer weather. This kids have been thrilled to be outside for recess and lunch this week : ) We had a lovely surprise this week when we came in on Monday-- there were presents under our Christmas tree! We're not sure how they got there, but we think the elves had something to do with it : ) We have been opening one each day and reading it during carpet time.  Ask your child which books we have read so far!                                   ----------------------------------------------------------------- This week we have been reviewing and learning some new letter sounds. We reviewed the /ch/, /sh/ and /th/ digraphs. We also learned that sometimes a word will have a double consonant at the end as in: mitt, buzz, puff, mess and bell. The students practiced building words using letter cards with double consonants at the end. This also helped st...

Hello Families & Happy Friday! I hope that everyone has been staying warm in this terribly cold weather! I also want to wish those of you who have been sick a speedy recovery. There is lots going around right now and our class has been hit especially hard. Miss Tucker has also been away and so her class has joined ours the last two days. It has been fun learning together : ) Keep reading to find out what we have been up to! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Language Arts we worked on writing in our journals about winter. We watched a video and discussed some facts about winter first. Then the students used this information to craft sentences remembering to use capital letters at the start, a period at the end and spaces between our words We are also working on elaboration in our writing. Students are being challenged to write more than one sentence on a topic and to use juicy words in their writing.  We also listed to a story about a be...