Our week!

We started off the week with a focus on the short vowel /i/. We will continue to work on this vowel sound until Friday. The students have been bringing home their morning word work to show you at home what types of activities they are doing at school! Also, our sight words this week are: use,  which,  each,  there, and  an.  For the next few weeks we are working hard on learning the first 100 words from the Fry Sight word list. Here is a link to the list and flashcards that you can download, print and practice at home!

http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/support-files/fryfirst100set.pdf

Our plants are continuing to grow each day and we were excited to see that the dill seeds are sprouting a couple of inches above the seed pod! Our basil continues to grow more leaves and we still haven't seen any sprout from our parsley yet. The students combined literacy and science by learning how to label their drawings using science vocabulary. We will use this same strategy when discussing our families and how we belong in Social Studies and work on specific vocabulary through a variety of activities such as building a family tree.

In math we are continuing to build on our mental math skills by reviewing skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. Students worked on this by filling in specific columns in a hundreds chart and describing any patterns that they recognized. They will also continue to work on simple addition and subtraction word problems and computations.

We have been taking advantage of the warm weather lately and playing outside! Here are some photos of us having fun and working together to build things.

After lunch everyday we will continue to work in small, guided reading groups. Here is a group enjoying a funny book by Robert Munsch:)

Don't forget, this Friday is early dismissal so the students will be dismissed at 11:35!