WooHoo Week 2!

This was the second week with both grades, and things are running smoothly. The students are starting to get the routine, which makes for one happy teacher! I think my favorite thing to see this week is how the students are beginning to be more comfortable in interacting with each other!

The Kindergartners have been busy learning all about letters, their sounds, and how to sound them out in words! This week we learned about "i" and "t" and began to place them together to make the word "it"! We have also been working on finding the first letter in words and writing our names using lowercase letters.

In first grade, we have been reviewing letters and learning new word families. Reading time has been so fun! The students have been reading in the reader books, and are becoming more and more fluent readers! It's been so neat to see their progress. With each story, we have also been working with reading comprehension with questions and worksheets.

From what I've heard, math has been one of the Kindergartners favorite subject. We have been going over foundation concepts such a shapes, same/different, more/fewer, and one-to-one correspondence. Patterns has been a fun concept to go over, and the students are now seeing them everywhere!

First grades math has been moving fast as we starting with counting coins, subtraction, and place values this week! The students have been taking on the challenges though with confidence! To learn the order of first, second, third, etc; we head to the gym to have a race! We have some fast first graders!

During our Discover time, we have been talking about families and our community. The students worked on Monday and Thursday to make their own family album. During the project, we talked about our home, our family members, and what we like to do together.

On Wednesday the first graders talked about our community and the different places you can go in it. We then discussed our school, and made a map of the school.

On Friday we finished our All About Me unit by making a timeline of our past, present, and future self. We also surprised our amazing class assistant with a giant card!

On Tuesday we had a special treat by having a beekeeper come into the school and give a presentation. We were able to look at bees, see their hives, and try many different types of honey. It was a sweet experience!

                                  

Also, a big congrats to this week spellers with 100% on their test! Keep up the hard work!

One last note. The next two weeks are Career Days. It will be so neat for the student's to learn about different careers from their own parents!