What did the Dragonflies do on Thursday January 19th...

The Dragonflies had such a busy day! 
In:
Calendar Time: we worked on our ability to identify the weather, beginning letter sounds, counting one to one correspondence to 6, and then identifying capital letter A.
Reading: the children focused their great reading abilities for three minutes! That is the highest that the children have gone in reading independently.  After they completed their independent reading, they worked in groups on counting syllables, creating patterns, and counting 1-20 on their 20 Grid game boards. 
Literacy: the children colored more of their Letter Hh book.  I was very proud to hear them read their book to me as a group without my help! It was definitely oud teacher moment :) While the children worked on coloring their letter Hh books, I read to them another chapter in our 6th Jack and Annie book Afternoon on the Amazon. We then completed our print awareness page, where the children colored a picture of a man wearing a hat, and then created a sentence beneath it.  In this time, the children are working on not only identifying the sight words that they know, but recognizing the words I say by the letters they see and the letter sounds they hear.  To finish our literacy time, the children worked on their tracing page, which allows them to work on their fine motor skills.
Word Family: our word family today was -ock.  I have noticed that when we move into the word families with three letters, it proves more difficult for the children.  I feel that this is a great time to give them a challenge.  Continued practice is in adding together the beginning sounds of the words with the word family we are learning: i.e. -bl with -ock to make block.
Nap: Definitely a fan favorite!
Science: We had quite a bit today in science today!  The children worked through their last three lessons in our living and nonliving things unit.  We talked a lot about what makes animals the same and different, and what makes plants the same and different.  We talked a lot about color, shape, movement, needs, and more!  The children then had their science test today, doing fairly well! I noticed the most struggle was in providing me two different plants and describing their similarities! This will be strengthened further in the fourth chapter of our science unit.  This can be practiced at home through identifying living and nonliving things in their own environment, and then talking about what makes them the same and then what makes them different.  To practice our knowledge of living plants and animals, the children made collages of animals and plants from magazines that we have. They cut and pasted them all on their own, and moments like these are what I live for as a teacher.  To see their knowledge created completely independent of me! Their collages will be hung in the basement for the next science unit we do, but I will post pictures below.  Feel free to stop down and see them!

Jack

 

Zachary

 

Megan

 

Abigail

 

Harrison

 

Owen

 

Kendall

There is homework tonight: The children should complete their helicopter sight word coloring sheet and return it tomorrow, if your child is not scheduled for tomorrow then please return it on Monday with their sight word worksheet and sight word find for the sight word and.
If you have any questions on homework, please feel free to comment on here and I will answer as soon as the email appears in my email.