Week in Review ~ November 28th - December 2nd

How is it possibly December, already? The busier we are in the K2, the faster the weeks keep going! This week in ELA we talked about different sounds we hear.  We listed sounds we hear outside, at school and at home.  We also talked about how sounds you hear in one place are sounds you may not hear in another place.  Our vocabulary words were listen, volume, exclaimed, chat and familiar. We read the stories Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep! Listen to the City, The Turtle and the Flute and Sounds Are Everywhere. Nn was the letter we focused in on this week and we decided if we heard the /n/ sound at the beginning or the end of a word.  We also introduced the sight word and. Here is the song that we learned to remember the word.

In learning centers we practiced writing the letter Nn, listened to where we heard the /n/ sound in a word, wrote about our favorite sound, sorted sight words, and searched the room for words with the letter Nn. We were busy, busy, busy!

In Math we finished up Topic 4 where we compared groups to 10 and numbers to 10. We also worked on naming the number that comes right before a number and right after a number. This is something you can easily practice at home with your K2er. Just say a number from 1-9 and ask them what numbes comes before it and what number comes after it. We also played the card game "compare" which is just like the card game "war." The K2ers LOVED this game and I told them how it is an easy game to play at home. If you aren't familiar with the game just split a deck of cards in half. Each player flips over their top card and compare the number. Whoever has the greater number keeps both cards. Play continues until one player has all the cards from the deck.

Next week we will be starting "Book Buddies" with a 3rd Grade class. They will be coming to our room Tuesday morning to read some poetry with us. Each child in their class will be paired up with a child from our class. We have a lot of fun things planned with our Book Buddies so I can't wait to get started. I hope everyone has a good weekend!