Our Learning This Week...
Happy Friday! Here's a peek at our week : ) Students were busy this week learning about and reviewing the letter sounds for /d/, /n/ and /o/. As part of their learning students are beginning to build words using our moveable alphabet. Students listen as the teacher orally segments the sounds in a list of target words, select the letters that match the sounds and then blend the sounds to read the words. In writing students have been unscrambling sentences listening for the naming part (i.e. noun/subject) and the telling part (i.e. verb/predicate). We worked on a number of sentences as a group and independently. Students also continued to review other important elements sentences (e.g capitals, punctuation, meatball spaces). In math, students focused on skip counting by 5s and 10s. They listening to songs, played games, and used a hundred chart to show what numbers you saying when counting by 5s and 10s. Students also discussed why skip counting is important and how it can hel...