Math Centers

This week in math we are doing…

Race to Trace

Venger drawing

Roll and Record

I Have Who Has 1-30

Can do activities

Make sure to ask your child what their favorite math activity was this week!

How to “Sound Out” Words

How to “Sound Out” Words:

In our classroom we are learning to sound out words.  The purpose is for students to:

·      Learn that words can be divided by sounds

·      Learn how to identify sounds sequentially

·      Learn how to blend separate sounds into a word

The steps for this activity, including the hand gestures, are as followed:

·      Hand in a ball – say the word

·      Fingers – say the sounds (tap one finger per sound on the palm of opposite hand)

·      Fist – say the word again

Need clarification?  Ask your kindergartner to show you!  Also, check out our class Twitter account to see a video of students sounding out words!

Pirates: Literacy Centers

This is our last week reading Pirates Past Noon and the K-1 students are working on...

Dramatizing in small groups!


Dramatizing learning records (The parrot said "too late")


Penmanship Center: Pirate Ship


Listening Center: Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story.
This student decided to write about her favorite part as well!

Literacy Centers

This week and literacy centers we are doing…

Listening center: The Pirate Cruncher

Dramatization

Penmanship: Jolly Roger

I Have Who Has Vocabulary 

Math Centers

Some of our math centers for this week are…

I Have Who Has numbers 1-30

Market Farm

Venger drawing

The Counting Jar

Race to Trace

Math centers

Check out the games we played this week in math...

Venger drawing with a triangle

The Counting Jar to 11

Build a City! Who has more?

Cross out

Build It

Grab It

Ahoy! Pirates!

This week we started building background knowledge about pirates. Take a look at some of what we've been doing in our centers...

Jolly Roger

Painting the bow, stern, masts, and sails!

Listening center

Penmanship center

It's a Pirates life for me!

Ancient Egypt

We just finished up our study of Ancient Egypt and will be diving into Pirates after the Thanksgiving break. Check out what we worked on this week in our literacy centers...

The director is reminding the group what comes next in our story.

Queen Hutupi is in the gold mummy case.

Annie is lost in the trick tunnel. Oh no!!!

Checking the director's book to see what comes next!

Making bread 

Finishing up at the listening center!