Week 5 of School

This week in Phonics we focused on the letter T/t. So as of right now, the students should be able to recognize, write, and know the sounds of the letters L/l, O/o, G/g, H/h, and T/t. This week we also started to get grades on our phonics work. The grades are E, S+, S, S-, and U. They won't be going into the gradebook until the start of the 2nd six weeks though. For the art project on Friday, they colored a tiger and practiced cutting, then glued the letter T/t onto the tiger's tummy.

In Reading, we are continuing with our first unit and talked about friends at school, how we get to school, and what we do at school. We focused on nouns that name places this week. The students are getting really good at recognizing a noun and being able to come up with one on thier own! We read the story "How Dinosaurs Get to School," and talked about what a character is and the feelings that the characters in the story had. The students are continuing on their alphabet handwriting pages and we are all the way through letter S/s. We also worked on rhymimg words and also recognizing words that have the same beginning sounds. The sight word we added for the week is Like.

In Math, we focused on patterns. We looked at several different patterns and then practiced making our own with blocks, counters, and bears. We also made patterns with noises. We would clap, then tap, clap, then tap, etc. The students loved getting to come up in front of the class and show them a new pattern that we could all do together! We also practiced counting forwards and backwards from 5 and writing numbers up to 5. We are still working hard on learning the days of the week, the months of the year, and how to count to 30. There are many students who can already do all of these on their own!

On Friday, we colored a yellow book and sang a song about things that are yellow. Students should be able to recognize the words red, green, and yellow from what we've been working on in class.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Mrs. Ray