The past few weeks have been a lot of independent practice and hopefully application of sight words we have learned! As we learn about patience, working together, sharing and kindness we can also incorporate fun! We have been playing different Sight Word "games" to help with your child's fluency in writing and spelling Sight Words. These games help with muscle memory of letter formation and spelling of words. We will add and learn different games throughout the year!
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| Ian and Joe are practicing their fluency in writing and spelling our Safari Sight Words! |
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| Lindsey and Lexi make a great team! |
In Math, we have learned strategies for counting on or counting all in addition. Allison is modeling counting all, by drawing all the cirlces from the first partner, then all the circles from the second partner to find the total. We are learning that by trusting the greater number first and counting on with cirlces with the smaller partner saves time and helps our fluency in addition. We are trying to move away from using fingers as that can cause silly mistakes and is not a great way for children to recognize partners and totals in addition and subtraction. Until your child can solve addition and subtraction with automaticity, encourage them to try the counting all or counting on strategy, depending what they are more comfortable with right now.
We've also been learning about vocabulary words for addition. We've learned that all these words mean the same thing as add: sum, total, altogether, increase, combined, plus, both and in all.
We will learn subtraction vocabulary in the coming weeks.
Our next unit in math is based on story problems and solving for missing partner or total based on the information provided. I will be posting some examples throughout the chapter. I will also post some examples of counting on for you to review with your firstie!
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| Allison modeling and explaining how to solve math equations by showing her work with counting on with circles. |
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| Skeleton Hiccups - pattern story! |
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Art Project/Writing Response Sample
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We read a story called
Skeleton Hiccups and recognized the author's purpose was to entertain us and the genre was fiction and fantasty writing. We then created our own skeleton's and answered the prompt: "I would get rid of a skeleton's hiccups by..." It was a lot of fun and great practice for conventions of writing!
