This week we learned a lot!
In Reader's Workshop we talked about Author's Craft in literary (fictional) texts. We reviewed bold words, ellipses, speech bubbles, and repeated words or sentences. Authors use these features to tell the reader how to change expression. Next, we will look at different fonts and sound words. Encourage your child to find these features in your reading at home.
In Math, we have been working on composing (building) and decomposing (taking apart) numbers. The students had a lot of fun building number bracelets. We used the number bracelets to find all the ways to make 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. When students are able to tell how to build a number or take apart a number, they build their number sense for working with bigger numbers. The more practice they get with numbers to ten, the easier place value will be next year in first grade.
We reviewed nouns. We made a chart of nouns as a class, and then used farm books to find more nouns. We will be looking at verbs next week.
As we are reading more and more challenging books, we are coming across words with long vowels. We are learning the spellings for long vowel sounds. This week we practiced with a. We know that if a word has a magic e at the end, the a will be long. We also know that ai and ay make the long a sound.
Just a reminder that there will be no kindergarten on May 16 due to Kindergarten Orientation. I can't believe it has already been a year since I first met your children!
