We have had a great week so far, with the LEGO digital stories, and third grade collaboration being the highlight so far!
Our phonics focus was on words with inflectional endings. All of our work on voiced and unvoiced sounds paid off when students were reading and sorting words with 'ed' endings. I posted a picture of the 'rule' above for what sound 'ed' makes at the end of the word. As a native speaker, I had to remind myself of the three sounds and when they are made, but our little learners did a wonderful job. Please continue to support this when reading at home. In Language Arts, we tread on with our unit on Narratives, and have been reading fairytales. This week we will be reading many versions of Cinderella and comparing and contrasting differences, between the different stories. In Mathematics, we have continued to focus on the relationship between addition and subtraction using fact triangles and families. The first graders are doing a wonderful job of finding missing addends when covering up numbers. I am really impressed! We have been learning a lot about publishing digital stories through our LEGO learning initiative. You can find out more about what we have been doing in phase two of our action research here. I have posted some photos below.
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