| Monday, 10/6/08
Today we began our day with writing and illustrating some weekend news.
Then, we had our math meeting time where we did work with the calendar,
months, days of the week, weather, and counting. During literacy time we had
a discussion on different kinds of homes animals have and the children
shared some of the various types of animal homes they have seen. We
continued to work with rhyming words and learned a new game where a word was
said, then a phoneme and the phoneme had to be added at the beginning to
make a new word(lie /s/ - sly). This activity was a bit tricky and we will
spend more time practicing the activity. We also learned today that in
multisyllable words there is a vowel sound/spelling in each syllable and we
blend these words syllable by syllable. The sound/spelling today was the
camera card(sound /k/ -spelling "k" or green box "ck"). The green box
stands for a short vowel sound. listened to words to see if we heard and
initial or final /k/ sound. We blended words that had the new
sound/spelling. The new selection we read today was called "Red-Eye
Tree Frog" and it contained some information a red-eye tree frog. In math
we practiced writing the number 21 and worked on our doubles facts to 10
(0+0, 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, and 5+5).
Tuesday, 10/7/08
Our morning began with our gym class. We had it in the classroom because of
the testing that is going on with the third, fourth, and fifth graders.
When we began our literacy time we had a discussion about why the rain
forest was a good home(habitat) for the tree frog. We then did some work
with adjectives or words that describe. We looked at a sentence and figured
out which words were the adjectives that described a noun. We counted the
vowel sound/spellings and syllables in a word and blended the word syllable
by syllable(nap-kin; napkin). Our sound/spelling card today was the robot
card(sound is /r/, spelling is "r"). The students practiced blending words
that contained the sounds we have been working on during our phonics
lessons. In math, we practiced writing the number 22 and discussed
the number of sides and angles in a rectangle.
Wednesday, 10/8/08
This morning we had music class in our classroom. The children were singing
some fun songs! Following music we began the literacy section of our day.
Our morning message asked - What is it like to live under the ground? This
led us to a discussion and the students had some great ideas. We also
reviewed adjectives and looked for adjectives in the poem "Mice" in our big
book. Mr. Lion played a game where I gave the students a word, Mr. Lion gave
a sound, then the children put the sound in the beginning of my word to
create a new word(rain /d/ - drain). We then did some blending of one
syllable words, followed by saying a CVC word one sound at a time. Our
sound/spelling card was the fan card(sound is /f/, spelling is f or ff).
The children listened to words for the /f/ sound at the initial and final
positions. The blending lesson used all of the various sound/spellings we
have been introduced to and several of the words contained the /f/ sound.
Three new word bank words were introduced today. Those new words are look,
what, and was. Please add these to the other word bank words that have been
introduced and practice them with your child. This morning we had a
presentation from the Allenstown Fire Department for fire prevention week.
The children watched a video, had a discussion on fire safety, and had a
chance to see the fire truck and sit inside it. In math we had an
assessment the a lesson that included writing the number 23, the shapes
circle, triangle and rectangle, position words, an writing a number
sentence for a some, some more story. The day sure was a busy one!
Thursday, 10/9/08
Our day began with an art class and the students had a chance to do some
painting. During literacy time we reviewed the sound/spellings we have been
working on in the last five lessons. We also reviewed beginning and ending
sounds and listened to words and segmented them by the phonemes we heard.
It was an assessment day for Unit 1- lessons 1-5. Lunch was early today
and the students left at 12:30 because of early release. Hopefully everyone
had a chance to get outside this afternoon and enjoy the great day! There
is no math homework tonight, but if you have a chance you can have your
child read one of their decodable books that they brought home last week.
Friday 10/10/08
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