Learning Our Names By Heart

 In Phonics, the students received their name baggie where they practiced studying their names by following the important steps we learned in class: (1) Read it, (2) Clap and stomp the beats, (3) Count the letters, (4) Study the letters, and (5) Cheer it.  Then, they practiced putting the letter tiles for their name in order beginning with a capital letter, followed by lowercase letters.  Finally, they had lots of fun following the steps to teach their name to a partner.

Show & Tell Writing Part by Part

In our new writing unit, students are learning how to show and tell about things they want to share with the world!  The students had lots of fun drawing and labeling Mabel the elephant part by part.

Number Stations

 In math, the students participated in number stations where they counted out objects to represent the number 5 in numerous ways.

Comparing Apples & Bananas

As part of Let's Find Out Weekly Reader, we had fun singing and dancing along to the "Apples and Bananas" song, comparing the features of apples and bananas, and playing a fun game where we sorted apples by size, color, and number of seeds.

It Takes a Team

Expanding our Positivity Project exploration of the character strength of "teamwork," the students truly enjoyed the challenge of working together to untie a human knot without letting go of hands.  All teams worked beautifully together to accomplish the goal!  

Vowels are Special Letters

 In our phonics lesson, the students learned about vowels and consonants.  Lots of fun was had discovering vowels in words around our classroom and even in our names!