Grade one and two finished their review of the individual letter sounds today as they explored the letter Zz. Like the sound a bee makes, the Zz says words like zipper, zero, zebra, and zoo. Watch for these letter books in your students backpacks and be sure to practice them at home.
While we may be completed our individual letters, there are still many letter combinations that require a lot of practice. Students have worked with blends such as Fr and Br and they have also worked with digraphs such as Th, Wh, Ch, and Sh. Helping students at home practice a variety of letter clusters will support them in their reading and writing greatly. So, when a student asks "how do you spell...?" try getting them to stretch and sound out the word instead. Listen for the individual sounds and see if they can spell unknown words on their own! In math, grade ones practiced finding errors in patterns so that they are able to create and extend patterns. Grade ones are challenged with finding the pattern core and then circling the core every time it repeats. As soon as we can't circle the core (because the pattern has changed), we know that's where our error is! Grade twos worked on changing patterns today so that they can determine if patterns or make patterns that do match. As long as they can make a core that matches, the pattern will match. So, if a core follows the general rule of "thing, different thing, thing" students just have to follow that general rule to create patterns that match. For example: ABA ABA ABA follows the general rule thing (A), different thing (B), thing (A) 121 121 121 also follows the general rule thing (1), different thing (2), thing (1) meaning ABA ABA ABA and 121 121 121 are two patterns that match! In Social Studies, we started examining the two different types of communities: rural and urban. Today, our focus was on rural communities. In Rural communities, you have more opportunities to know a lot of people that live near you and everyone goes to the same buildings (like the grocery store) because there are not many to choose from. Students were very interested to find out that I grew up in rural community and that my family still lives on our farm there. Students were so curious about my life on a farm, as it is so different from how they are growing up, that we spent our whole period asking questions and never got to finish our work! That kind of curiosity is amazing! Afterwards, we had an assembly put on by the acapella group, HOJA. It was so much fun to spend the rest of our afternoon singing and dancing along! Families, don't forget tomorrow is our bake sale. Treats are 25 cents each!
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