Our focus in reading this week is being able to identify the characters (WHO the story is about), setting (WHERE the story happens), and main idea (WHAT happens in the story).
In "Fundations' our phonics program, we continue to focus on letter identification/letter sounds/letter formation. This week, our letters were 'v' and 'w'.
In writing, we are continuing to focus on using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to convey our thoughts and events. Many of the kiddos are beginning to use our sight words, as well as beginning & ending sounds to create one or more sentences about their drawings. Speaking of sight words, we have added the words 'we' and 'will' to our list. Ask your child to share with you the gestures for these words.
In math, our focus has been using a '5 group' to count numbers AND represent them visually, as well as on our hands. For example, if we were going to count to 8, we would put our '5 group' up (5 fingers on one hand) and count, "5, 6, 7, 8" and put 3 fingers up on our other hand. We would represent 8 with the '5 group' and 3 fingers with a picture such as:
O O O O O (5 group)
O O O (3 fingers)
We also started to work on writing and representing numbers 11-20.
All of these objectives are easy to tie in at home in those 'teachable moments' when the kids don't even know they are learning.
Thank you to those of you who donated money for our JRDF run on Thursday. Although I was absent, I heard the kiddos had a fun time helping to raise money for children with diabetes.
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