Leap Into Learning: Week of October 15th

What we've been learning...

Shared Reading:
Each week we learn and work with a new poem. On Fridays, we draw a picture to match the words of the poem.

Sight Words:
Each week we engage in different activities and strategies to learn our new words. This is Ms. Gillen cheering the words with the kids.

Phonics: I can know and say the first sound of a word.
We sorted pictures by their first sounds.

Responding to Text:
Each Monday we have "make it Monday". We respond to a book read aloud in different ways. We have been writing in our reading response journals and writing about what the book makes us think.

Independent Reading: I can read stories that I have read a zillion times.
This week I gave the students the gift of books. All of the students were so excited to see fairy tales that they could connect to. Many of the students had read many of these books before and their engagement and excitement to read and reread these books was very high!

Writing Workshop: I can write simple sentences.
This week we wrote all about things we could see. "I see ...."

Math Number Talks:
I was so impressed with the students and their ability to explain their thinking in math this week. We started doing some whole group number talks. I would give the students a number and they would show me that number in different ways in a tens frame. Then they would have to explain their thinking to the whole class. I wrote down their thinking.

Science: I can identify how fall changes people and plants.
We had a great time discussing and exploring fall and the changes that it brings. One of the highlights of the week was our leaf walk. We looked for signs of fall and found many leaves that had already started changing colors.