Hello Families,
please check your child's communication folder for a notice regarding book club! Please sign and return this form if you want your child to participate in this weekly club to enhance their reading compression, fluency, and vocabulary! Also, don't forget picture order forms are due October 28! As for today, we had another busy one in room 9! Students started their morning with music and library. Afterwards, we practiced mindfulness to get us ready to learn. Students participate in guided breathing and stretching activities to practice self-control, enhance focus, and manage stress. Following mindfulness, we moved on to math centers. Today, Grade 1 students worked on their recognition of the numbers 0-10. Students are using their knowledge of representing numbers to show 0-10 as a tally or symbol. They are also practicing their subitizing skills as they look at objects and know how many there are without having to point and count. Grade 2s worked on their understanding of subtraction. They are able to describe this math operation as "taking away" and can draw pictures and use other objects to solve these equations. In literacy, we worked on a new word family! Students are able to describe word families as any words ending in the same set of letters/sound. Today, we learned all about the "ad" family. Students are able to decipher the two letters "a" and "d" using their knowledge of letter sounds and can implement this to spell words with the same ending. The photo below is another example of blending letter sounds to decode new words. Each dot is a new sound, and as students run their finger under the word, they say the new sounds out loud and blend them together to say the word. Practice these words at home as repeating words enhances fluency! We also built on our knowledge of sentence structure today. Describing a sentence can seem difficult, because as adults we use them so often. But, Grade 1 and 2 students don't often know what a sentence is. Today, we discussed how sentences are a group of words that are complete in itself. We looked at some examples, and students decided if they were sentences or not. For example: 1. Dog. 2. I ran to the park. 3. Cat is. 4. My dad is fun. Examples 1 and 3 are not complete! Talk to your student about sentences tonight!
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