Also in Fundations, I collected objects that ended with the letters taught so far and put them in a big shopping bag. Then, I called on a student to pick something out of the bag. I asked the student what they pulled out and had them find the letter that ended the word. Next, they said the letter-keyword-sound and the class repeated. Finally, the student wrote the letter following my verbalization on our class writing grid.
As a follow up from last week, I displayed a sentence using our sentence frames that asked a question. I modeled how to read question sentences, making sure to make my voice go up at the end. Then after we choral read the sentence together, I erased the sentence and put the frames in a column on the board. I selected a student to put the frames in order so I could successfully write the sentence "Do you like candy?" After the sentence was written, the children helped me read it as the student pointed to each word with the pointer.
In Math, we identified different shapes by feel. I introduced the "Feely Box" and noted that there were different shapes inside the box that the children will touch but not see. I gave them clues to help them choose shapes from the box. They LOVED this!
The next day, we learned about each other's favorite colors! I gave each child a paper crayon and told them to color their crayon their favorite color. When they finished coloring their crayons, I instructed them to stand in groups. Then, we discussed which colors were the most and least popular in our class by counting the children in each group. We discussed how we could share with others what we learned about our favorite colors and how we could save this information so we could talk about it another day or compare it with another class. I was so excited when the children mentioned creating a graph!!! Each child placed their crayon on our graph end to end to create bars. To wrap up the lesson, the class counted the number of children who chose each color on the graph as I wrote the corresponding numbers above each color. Blue and purple were the most popular in the morning class and red was the most popular in the afternoon class. Take a look below!
In Science, we tallied the weather for November. The children noted that we had the most sunny days in November.
During Guided Reading, the children rotated through the following centers:
- ABC Center- Children matched uppercase and lowercase letters with a picture that had the same beginning sound to create snowmen.
- Elf Write the Room- Children walked around the room with a clipboard, located each shelf, read the uppercase letter, and wrote the lowercase letter on the recording sheet beside the correct picture.
- Math Center- Children formed number using play dough, represented the number on a tens frame and wrote the number with a dry erase marker.
- Word Work- Children chose a lightbulb card and stamped the letter on the lightbulb. Then they drew a picture of something that started with that letter sound.
- The front door will open at 6:30pm.
- The children need to stay in the gym with you until Mrs. Sell makes the announcement to go to our classroom.
Miss Visicaro