New Literacy Stations!

We have been working on some new literacy stations this week:

Reading new books we have shared together, like Llama Llama Misses Mama

Here is a video of the story to watch at home together:

Whiteboard Station:  Matching uppercase letters to the alphabet linking chart.

Memory Match with Environmental Print!

Once the game is done, they can choose to build some of the words with magnetic letters.

Alphabet Bingo!  Click here to play at home!

Fishing for Letters!

Students take turn fishing for letters & match them on the alphabet linking chart.

Write the Room

with Environmental Print

Writing Center:  These two writers worked on showing a story on paper! 

Fine Motor Station:  Cut & paste the alphabet linking chart

In MATH, we have been working a lot on number sense.  We finished our Names for Numbers Book 1-10 and have been learning about new number based math stations.

We read the story Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed to practice taking away and the concept of zero.  Click here to watch a fun video of the song at home!

We also learned how to number scroll:

This is a GREAT skill to practice number writing at home.  Pencil and paper will do just fine!

We also practice counting the number of letters in our names.  First we read Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes.  Watch it at home:

Then, we counted the letters in Chrysanthemum's name: 13!!!!!

We built our names with unifix cubes and counted the letters.

We even compared the length of our names, using words like longer, taller, and shorter.  These words will be assessed in our Fall Report Cards, so it was great practice.

Then....

We graphed the results!

We counted the number of people for each number of letters.  Then, we learned to find the MOST.  We discovered that the most people had 6 letters in their name.

P.S. While we were reading Chrysanthemum, many of the kids were concerned in how the other kids in her class were treating her.  We talked a lot about teasing and how it made Chrysanthemum feel.  This is a great introduction to next week's work on friendships and bullying.  As you watch the video at home, I encourage you to use the opportunity to talk about how we treat others.