What a fun week in K-1! My little owl friends have been doing AMAZING and have learned so much! Here are some things we have been learning this week:
In literacy, we have been learning more letters with their sounds and have practiced these newly learned sounds into reading more and more words. I am amazed with how well my kinder friends are recognizing the letters in new words and how quickly they are able to blend them to read. I am also SO PROUD of how well they are writing now that they have learned so many letters/sounds! They are doing such a great job beginning to write words on their own with their "brave spelling!" I am blown away! Way to go, K-1! They are also doing a great job recognizing and writing their heart words too! I can tell they are practicing at home! Yay! We have also been reading many books where we have been learning about fiction/non-fiction, informational text, verbs, nouns, and learning skills that good readers do when reading a new book.
We have been learning about word families too and practicing sorting words in the right word family. They have also LOVED having the chance to read the word family words on their own too. I LOVE any chance I get to hear them read new words! Yay, K-1!
In social studies this week, we have been learning about American holidays and the importance of each one. They have enjoyed learning about them and telling me what they have learned in our lessons this week!
In math, we finished measurement last week so we began a new chapter this week about comparing numbers to 10. We have been working on the skill of comparing two sets of objects using more than. They are doing a great job learning these new math concepts. One of the activities we did this week was a counting "Write Around The Room." They LOVED this activity and had so much fun finding all the hidden pictures around the classroom and recording on their sheets how many objects there were on each picture card. This helped them strengthen their skill of counting along with writing the numbers the correct way.
We are plugging along here in K-1 and I can't tell you how proud I am of ALL of them! They have all begun reading and writing and are doing such a great job implementing what they have learned into their school work! They have all really grown too as learners and are doing such a great job with listening, following directions and trying their very best every day! We filled our class pom-pom jar last week so we came up with ideas and voted on how we wanted to celebrate. The idea that won was to have "show and tell." We had it today and they were so excited to share their special item with everyone in the class. Everyone was a great audience as each friend shared and I allowed each person sharing to call on one friend to ask them a question about what they brought. They all did great speaking in front of the class and answering their friends' questions. Way to go, K-1!
