What a very busy Monday!
Scholastic Magazine: Today we started with a Scholastic Magazine. Our magazine was on snow! We learned about the snowman, and how he melts. We also learned about animal tracks and who makes them. The children were surprised to learn that they can make tracks in the snow. We played our scholastic magazine game today, which was us creating our very own snowman!
Remember, you are able to access the scholastic magazines from home, you just need to login as a parent with a password that was given out at the beginning of the school year. If you need it again, just let me know!
We then did a worksheet that focused on tracing lines, and a worksheet that introduced us to addition. We talked about what the plus sign is and what the equal sign is. We used dots to symbolize the numbers that we were adding, and then totaled them up.
Writing: Today in writing we worked on the number 10. Our focus was making sure that our 1 and 0 were nice and squished together, while our number 10's had a nice space between them.
Word Study: In word study today, the children worked in their interactive notebook on the word find. They cut out their pieces and then glued them in their notebook. They worked hard on creating the word find with the correct letters.
Life Skills: Life skills is a time where we work on different skills that are in real life, in this case tying our shoes. The children worked on tying the knot of their shoes. Harrison below demonstrates for the camera how to tie a successful knot!
There is homework tonight, it is due tomorrow Tuesday, January 17th. It is a worksheet that works on identifying beginning sounds in words for letters F, G, H.
Make sure to read your take home book with the kids and mark off for the reading! :)
What is the shoe tying method you're using?
ReplyDeleteLisa
I have yet to determine how we will make the loops for the process of tying our shoes, but for now with the knot I have done this:
ReplyDeleteI have them pick up each lace: one in each hand and then I have them "trade" by crossing over the laces and taking a new lace in each hand to create an X.
I then have them drop one lace over the other and pinch their fingers through the hole to pull it back through". And usually to get a giggle I say, "Come back here!" when I pull the lace through.
I hope this helps, and if you would like I can always demonstrate it for you at your pick up!
Thanks for asking!