In phonics the kindergartners have started....drum roll please...consonant blends! This will really broaden their reading vocabulary. This week we learned the blends br,st,sp, and gr. Along with letter blends, they have also found sight words hidden in "snowballs". Both grades have also completed some writing about their favorite winter activities.
First grade have started reading words that include Bossy R. Bossy R likes to boss the vowels it follows around, creating sounds like "ar", "er", and "or". On Friday the students also started contractions! While reading words like "isn't", "doesn't", and "can't" were intimidating at first, they started to really get a hang of it!
With both the grades hitting milestones in reading recently, we took a day to do some partner reading across grades together. The first graders felt like teachers as they read to a Kindergartner, and he Kindergartners felt pretty important reading to first graders!
In math, both grades have had many new concepts thrown at them. Kindergarten has continues to harder addition and adding pennies. First grade has begun counting dollars, telling time to the quarter, and reading temperatures.
Science has been so cool this week as we've focused on winter (sorry the pun was to obvious to ignore!). On Monday we studies snow and how it melts. We placed jars of snow in different areas (window, fridge, dark room, and outside), and then made prediction on which would melt first. We adjusted out predictions by checking on the melting progress every 5 minutes.
On Wednesday, the first graders studies different arctic animals, and learned about how penguin feather resist water. On Thursday we learned about hibernation, and created our own dens and burrows using toothpicks and marshmallows. On Friday the first graders studies evergreen trees, and used their senses to observe and ask questions.
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