After completing our Math message and some calendar Math, we moved on to play letter sound Kaboom. Students had a great time reviewing the letters and sounds they make by playing this game. After that, we went outside and played our letter sound 'I Have, Who Has' game, we shaved a minute off of our time from yesterday. After break, we read the story "We Share Everything'. Here is the summary from Goodreads: "It's the very first day of kindergarten, and Amanda and Jeremiah have a problem. They want to read the same book. They want to play with the same blocks. The teacher wants them to share everything. But when Amanda and Jeremiah take their teacher's advice, the whole class is in for a hilarious surprise!" Sharing is a year long conversation in grade one, and weaves nicely into our unit of inquiry on 'Getting Along' that we are beginning next week. This was also a great book to introduce proper classroom routines and behaviour. Once we listened to the story, we talked about why sharing is important and discussed the different things that people can share. We each took it upon ourselves to write a page for our own 'We Share Everything' book. I will be binding it next week and will begin to send it home with a copy of the actual story to be enjoyed with families. At the end of the day, we took a look at the games we have in our classroom, and using our new sharing skills, we worked in groups to play with them together. It was a wonderful way to end an amazing week together.
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This morning when we walked in, there were mats, objects, and whiteboards all around the classroom. It was all very exciting! After solving our daily 'Math Message' and taking a look at some calendar math, we picked a spot, and began to work on counting. We practiced counting many different things and writing down how many there were, then double checking...this is always very important when counting. When we finished counting all sorts of things, we worked on naming letters and their sounds. We played a game of 'I Have, Who Has?' where we listened for different letter and their sounds, trying to read and respond quickly. Our best time through the alphabet was 3 minutes and 4 seconds. We will try to improve this over the next few days of school. Following this, we read the rest of 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today?'. We talked about what 'bucket dippers' do and how they hurt people and their feelings. We talked in small groups about times when someone has dipped our buckets and how that made us feel. After this, we finished our 'Bucket Fillers' anchor chart from yesterday, but drawing and writing about bucket dippers. To end our morning, we went outside and worked on making words with our giant scrabble tiles. We did a great job thinking about letters and sounds and how they work together to make words. We began with five letters each, and as we made words, we picked up new tiles. By the end however, we ended up working in teams to make as many words as we could with all of the letters. It was so much fun! I encourage you to look at this blog with your child and have them tell you their recount of our day. The photos should help them remember what we did when you ask "How was you day at school?".
In other news, your child's Kids A-Z (formerly Raz Kids) book rooms have been opened and placed at your child's level. Please being nightly reading on the app, or through the website. We started our day like everyday, solving a math problem and discussing our answers together. After that, we played number bingo. If you child does not recognize their numbers from 1-30, please reinforce this skill at home. If you would like to borrow our number bingo game, please leave a message in the comments section with how many boards you would like for you and your family. Later in the day, we went back outside with our letter beanbags. This time, we worked in groups of 4 and 5 to race to spell different words together as a team. We will be doing assessments all week on letter names and sounds. This is a great way to gain an understanding of our little ones skills. After break, we reviewed our rules. We practices acting them our and saying them in a number of different funny voices! We also talked in groups about what following the rules looks like. While this seems like a lot of repetition, establishing rules and routines at the beginning of the year is imperative for success throughout the year. Doing this now, sets the tone for the year, and makes our learning more productive throughout first grade.
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