Math, Centers, and Continents

Last week and this week have both been review weeks for us. We have reviewed adding and subtracting as well as 3d and 2d shapes.

This week we have worked on blending sounds to form words. Below you will see one way we have practiced this. The students had no idea what letter was on their head. The class had to blend the sounds together and tell these three what word they formed. These students then had to figure out what letter they were.

The students have been editing sentences:

Last week we talked about Asia. We read Lon Po Po (the Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood) and Little Red Riding Hood:

Then we used our Text to Text Connections chart and compared the two books:

This week we are talking about Europe. We read The Story of Ferdinand

We labeled different nouns and verbs throughout the book:

Today we read One Fine Day

I stopped reading the book towards the end and the students had to predict what the ending would be. They drew pictures, shared their endings with the class, and we attached them to our Good Readers Make Mental Images chart. Then we finished the book to see what students predicted the correct ending.

Here are some new centers for this week:

Our new writing center:

We have been talking about vowels a lot lately:

One of our new centers is a vowel picture sort:

Noun/Verb Sort:

Skip counting by 2's:

Addition:

Blends sort:

Don't forget Spring Break is next week!!!

This Weeks Update

We had a great week!! It was good to see all of the kiddos after our long break! Here is an update from last week:

We read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

We talked about what questions we had before, during, and after reading the book {thank you Pinterest for this idea!} This was great because the students were able to answer each others questions.

We discussed who, what, where and when questions

And then created a venn diagram to compare ourselves to the little boy in the book

We also read Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems. This is such an adorable book! The kids LOVED it!

We then created an anchor chart to retell the story {this is something great you can do at home when reading with your kids!}

I also introduced nouns and verbs this week. We used these cute boy and girl charts to help us! {Again, thank you Pinterest!} We read The Jacket I Wear in the Snow and then wrote all of the nouns from the book on our Nick Noun chart.

Here are our centers from last week and for the next week:

Students use the lights to count syllables and then they place that number of cubes or cotton balls to show how many syllables the word has:

At this center, the students are to sort the fish cards by beginning and ending sounds: -ch, -sh, or -th.

They do the same in this center:

They loved our Write the Room center this week! They have to complete a scavenger hunt and find cards that look like the one below. They are to count the number of snowflakes and then write the number word on the correct blank.

At this center, the students have to pick a card write the correct color word and then draw the picture.

And our last center is our read aloud center. The students had to match the color word with the correct snowman.

I worked this weekend to get my reading groups and my guided reading table organized! I am now ready to start our reading groups this week! Your children will be bringing books home this week. Be sure to read the books with them {rather let them read the books to you.} You can discuss what happened in the book, what their favorite part was, practice retelling the story, and you can have them draw a picture of their favorite part. These are just suggestions, not things your have to do!

Center ideas are from the following websites:

http://www.pre-kpages.com/blog/

http://candokinders.blogspot.com/

http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/