Letter Mm

In Social Studies this week we will be learning about physical characteristics of land. We will be looking at Texas landforms and specific characteristics about Dublin. There will be different books about Texas Landforms and globes for the children to explore... then they can build landforms in their sandbox!!!!
Barrels of monkey fun!!!

In math this week we will be continuing our study on patterns. Moving on to ABC patterns and finding similarities and differences in patterns!

10 Monkeys swinging in a tree....Counting backwards 10-1. That is the Alligator (hehe) below the tree... ready to snatch the monkeys right out of that tree!

Feed the monkey the banana words that start with Mm

Match the PIP dot bananas with the correct monkey numeral! 1-10

Even though we are studying letter Mm... we are also doing Jack and the Beanstalk activities in ELAR and Science! In ELAR, we will be specifically learning how to write a story from rough draft to final draft. We will start by making a Cover, Author and title page for our story. We will then determine the Beginning., Middle and End of our story. We will then add details and create our final draft!

Sequencing

Dramatic play retelling

In Science this week we will be leaning all about a Lima bean seed. What happens when it is planted and labeling the Lima bean sprout.

Labeling our seed

Over the weekend we had a GIANT bean stalk sprout in our room! This will be used to reinforce our sight words!

Each child will have their own Greenhouse to watch their seed grow!

Pics from the week!

Letter Nn

Compare two stories. Questions? What is the Writer trying to express to the reader? Is the author trying to inform us on a topic or is this a book to read for pleasure?

Social Studies- Old and new... Long ago and Today
Science: Living and Non- Living


ELAR: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves .... Retelling... Using Story wands to determine the main character, the plot, and the beginning, middle and end of the story. Also, play a sight word game that goes along with the story.

ELAR- In writing we will begin making rough drafts... Begin creative spelling... Determine that stories have a Beginning..Middle...and End. Try to pre-write a story.... First by drawing 3 pictures... then going back and creative spelling the text by labeling.

Math- Cont. counting, recognize and writing numbers 6-10. One activity we will do is Counting Letter Nn objects to the toon of 1 little 2 little 3 little Indians... all the way to 10 and backwards. Instead of saying "indian" we will substitute whatever we are counting... ( 1 little 2 little 3 little Nn's, Necklaces, Nuts, Numbers, Nails, Noodles, and Nests!)

AB pattern Necklaces

Science- Living and non-living magazine find

ELAR- The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. Retelling work-mats, wands, and scarecrow.

Don't forget to study sight words!!!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Cowan

Peter Pan at Tarleton

Letter Aa

Our cute little Alligator eating the letter Aa words!
More Alligators!

Math: We are learning and recognizing number 6-10. We are putting the correct # of apples on the apple tree! (I used the cherries from the game Hi-Ho Cheerio... they look just like apples!) :)
The Ants Go Marching- retelling, dramatic play and counting to 10! So fun!
Then they will try to do it backwards! We are also learning to count backwards from 10!
Letter Vests- These are all the letters we have learned so far this year. I will choose 3 kids at a time and they will work on creating CVC words!
Monster eyes- There are colored eye balls... and they have to match the color of the eye to the color of the monster... then we will count how many eyes each monster has. We are still working on counting to 40!





Singular and plural noun Animal Game!

Day or Night? They will sort the items into whether the items are used in Day/Night/Both! They they will copy a Venn Diagram on their paper and draw where each item goes!

Apple Writing!

We are going to have a GREAT WEEK!!!!!

Explanation

Parents- I wanted to explain a little more about the pics I post each Monday. These pics are activities that your students will be doing during the week. Originally, I had intended to use them as workstations... but... Week 2 of cscope I found that workstation time was going to be far and few between. So, what you see are engaging teacher created lessons that align with the CSCOPE curriculum! We use these lessons as either small group or whole group. :)

Mrs. Cowan

If you give a Pig a Party!!!!

Since we are studying Letter Pp... We read the book If You Give a Pig a Party and made party hats. Later that afternoon it was someone's bday... so it worked out perfect! We wore our Party hats and had a party! We also have been studying about the main character of the story.. so we wrote who the main character was in the book and drew a pic! Fun day!

How are we different!

Fire safety week!