A look at our learning...
It was a short week, but a busy one!!
Fundations: this week we began learning about silent e. We also like to call him the "bossy e." We are learning that when words have an e on the end, it is silent and tells the first vowel to say it's name (long vowel sound) rather than the sounds we learned in Fundations (short vowel sound.)
We practiced tapping out 3 letter CVC words and then added an e to turn it into a CVCe word.
For example:
mad------made
hop------hope
pin------pine
This is a very new concept and one we will continue to learn about during 3rd trimester. Please read the parent information packet in your child's take home folder to help at home.
Spelling words: due to the unexpected short week this week, we did not take a spelling test today. We will continue to practice the words an & on next week and test next Friday. Please continue to practice all word wall words at home.
Math: we continue to work on identifying teen numbers. We also worked on shapes and showing various ways to make a shape. For example: you can make a hexagon with 2 trapezoids or 6 triangles or 1 rhombus, 1 trapezoid, 1 triangle, etc.
Writing Workshop: to help us work on adding more detail to our stories and making them longer, we are using this Story Hand. The heart reminds us we write about things we love, the thumb reminds us to include the characters in our writing, the pointer finger reminds us to include the setting of our story and the other 3 fingers remind us to tell 3 details.
Science: we learned about the sun this week. Ask your child to tell you a few facts or cool pieces of information they learned about the sun.
Makerspace: on Thursday we did another Makerspace activity with Mrs. Fitch. We listened to the sweet book Somebody loves you Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli and learned how to make pop-up cards. Your child brought home their pop-up card on Thursday.
Check out the class Facebook page to see more photos from our Valentine Party!
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