NEW YEAR, NEW STUFF We've enjoyed playing some new games this week during morning meeting to share the many fun things we did over the break. We have also had fun learning some new board games and challenge games (shown below) during Guided Discovery centers. USING OUR SENSES This week in science we have been exploring our senses and using them to make observations. We have done several experiments and will continue with more next week. To the left is a type of thinking map called a "bubble map" that we made to record our observations (using adjectives) of popcorn. Notice the sense-to-color-coded key at the top. If some words seem odd, ask your child how we made that observation. This would be a great activity for you to do at home using another food! If you choose to do this, please take pictures and send in your bubble map for your child to share with the class! (Maddy gave me this idea when she excitedly told me she was going to do this with her family this weekend. Thanks Maddy!) Here we are playing a "feeling relay" (matching objects in 2 bags strictly by feeling)...no peeking! SHAPES ALL AROUND Thanks everyone for sending in items for the 3D shape museum! We've had a great time sharing our shapes. If you haven't sent in shapes yet, please send them Monday (sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism). We have also played a number of games this week to refine our understanding of faces, edges, and vertices with 3D shapes. Next week we will begin measuring in math. SIGHT WORD UPDATE We have added a LOT of new words to our sight word wall. Below are pictures showing ALL of the words on our wall, but the newest words are: an, as, from, how, look, no, on, they, this, that, was, with. Please make flash cards at home to practice all of the sight words with your child. When you go through them at home, make 2 stacks: words your child knows "quick as a snap", and words he/she has to think about before reading. Continue to practice daily with words that your child does not know immediately. Thanks in advance for your support! SEE BELOW!
I've added pictures to my last post that I didn't have at the time I posted. Thought you might like to see... Happy new year to you all!
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Shannon Eggleton
1/8/2016 07:22:30 pm
Looks like a fun first week back! :D
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