Teaching and Learning in Jan/Feb.

Exploring Earth materials as part of our Science unit.

We have missed a lot of school due to weather conditions. Everyday that I have with the kids is precious and we have been working on a lot of skills!

What have we been focusing on?

Writing-

Choosing a topic independently

Writing the sounds we hear (stretching out words independently)

Spaces

Capitals/lowercase letters in the appropriate places

Punctuation

Giving more detail in writing

Writing more than on sentence

Reading-

Reading more complex text

Learning the SH, TH, WH, CH sounds

Blending/ segmenting words

Sight words: come, for, me, am, at, said, look, this, you

Fluency

Chunking words

Letters/sounds

Rhyming
Summarizing
Making Connections and predictions
Concepts of Print
Author, illustrator, setting, main characters, problem, solution...

Math-

1-to-1 correspondence to 30

Counting to 100

Number ID

Counting by 10’s and 5’s

Finding different ways to make 10

Interpreting a graph (How many more red than green?)

Addition to 10

Subtraction with numbers 1-10

Patterning (AAB)

Working with 10's frames

Base ten blocks (coming soon)

Social Studies/Science-

Groundhogs Day

Earth

Teeth

Please make sure you are working on your February Reading Bingo Sheet!