Week of November 27

Meteorologists often use weather symbols to collect data about the weather.

We looked at lots of weather pictures and used weather words to describe what weather conditions we saw.

Week of November 13

Tallies help organize our counting. We can count on from 5!

We have been exploring tally marks and how they make our counting more efficient.

You Skills: The Zones of Regulation

The turkey is a funny bird, it's head goes wobble wobble. All it says is just one word GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!

The very beginnings of addition: Domino Parking Lot.

We can stretch out words to hear and record sounds.

FUNdations work.

Letter writing practice.

Feeling proud!

We have enjoyed a variety of Thanksgiving books to prepare for a wonderful Thanksgiving break.

Thanksgiving cards.

Our class filled the entire jar full of pennies (good deeds). We took a class walk down to the school container and celebrated all of our positive accomplishments by adding our pennies to the whole school jar.

It was a proud moment!

We are wild for words!

Especially sight words that we can read and write quickly!

Week of November 6

This month our calendar markers revolve around two and three dimensional shapes.

Working on iPads to extend the idea of geoboards.

Working with number racks: children pick a numeral card and build that amount on their number racks. Then the numeral is written in the recording sheet.

The compare and contrast game: a partner game where children roll a die (or two) and compare the amount. They circle the number that has "more" for the first round, and then circle the number that is "less" in the second round. This game also requires children to practice numeral writing.

Fundations letters of the week.

Shape detectives.

This writer wanted to teach more so she added more pages to make a scroll.

Bucket Fillers For kindness: sending notes of support for hurricane victims.

Big idea in writers workshop.

Guided drawing of a scarecrow.