A Whole Lotta Learning Going On!

Despite a whole lotta snow & cold days, there's a whole lotta learning going on in our classroom!

LITERACY 

To add a little extra something to our library literacy station, we learned how to draw & write the book we read:

 We opened up the sensory table to hunt for letters in rice:

We have been learning about the parts of narrative stories.  So we read & re-read Goldilocks & the Three Bears many times to think about these elements:

These are great elements to discuss at home while you read together to build reading comprehension.

We also thought more about characters.  Although what characters look like are important, we also want to think about what their actions tell us and their character traits.  This can be a tricky skill for Ks because it is vocabulary intensive.   Talk more about characters at home of your child's favorite stories!

Click here to get printable story props for re-telling the story at home!

In the Dramatic Play Station, we are having Tea Parties!

Our Ks can make invitations for the tea party to give to their friends.

MATH

This week, we learned how to count by 5s to 100!  We discussed that sometimes mathematicians group things together and count the groups.  So we did so with a natural group on our bodies: fingers on a hand!

We added these fives to our classroom days of school number line. 

AND we learned about tally marks!

We read Tally O'Malley and saw that we can use tally marks to count things.

Then, we used tally marks to count the number of kids in our class:

Click here to play a Tally game at home!

Here's a video to like to use to practice:

Math Stations...

Ordering numbers 1-20 & writing them!

Counting and representing teen numbers in different ways.

Here students use number cards, ten frames, teen frames, & base-ten blocks to represent numbers 10-20.

Dice Throw Game

Students role 2 die & add them together.  They say, "1 plus 4 equals..."  Then students graph the totals.

Teen Spin

Students work with a partner & each spin for a teen number.  Both students build and write the number.  Here, a "ten stick" is being used to represent the ten in 17.  Then, students compare their numbers to decide which is greater.

Last week in the computer lab, we played a new addition game.  Click here to play at home!

And last but not least, this week Carpenter recognized the Lunar New Year with a parade: