I'm sure you were all as surprised as I was upon hearing school was canceled early this morning. With that being said, I was horrified watching all the news reports on the devastating fire in our town! How scary! Our town is incredibly lucky to have such amazing firefighters that are still working to keep us safe~ Thank you to all the surrounding towns for their support as well :)
This week we celebrated Cris' birthday and watched Tiara shine on stage during our school wide Multi-Cultural assembly! Happy Birthday Cris and Congratulations Tiara!
During Fundations, your adorable and amazing children continued working on letter sounds and “tapping” out the words. Keep practicing tapping three letter words at home (mat, sat, pig, wig, top, lot)~ practice makes perfect. Students are beginning to understand the tapping of each sound, but it is a difficult skill to blend those sounds to say the word. The children also practiced tapping/writing CVC words without even seeing the letters.
I also introduced long and short vowel sounds in words like mad/made, pin/pine, and hat/hate. Your children learned that long vowels say their name, and short vowels say the letter sound.
Finally, the children practiced writing CVC words on their dry erase boards that we tapped out together. We will continue to work on this! I am so proud of them- this is very challenging!
Finally, the children drew one join and one take-away number story in their math books and wrote a number model for each story.
During Guided Reading, the children rotated through 4 Valentine's Day themed centers:
-Valentine's Day Sight Word Write the Room- Children found sight words around the room and wrote them on a recording sheet.
-Word Work- Valentine's Day CVC Mats: Children looked at pictures and wrote the CVC word on the mat and read a sentence with the CVC word in it.
-Writing Center- Valentine's Day Booklets- Children filled in the missing words.
- Math Center- Children played the "Attribute Spinner Game."
Have a great weekend! Remember, we have school on Monday for President’s Day!
Reminders: Valentine's Day cards are due on Monday.
Take Care,
Miss Visicaro