In ELA this week, our essential question was "What do you know about our country?" and our vocabulary words were country, travel, careful, purpose and connect. We listened to some great stories that taught us all about some famous landmarks. We listened to Ana Goes to Washington, D.C. where the characters visited the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, The White House, the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial, The U.S. Capitol, and the Library of Congress. In the story Best of the West we learned all about Yosemite National Park and Old Faithful, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Space Needle and the Grand Canyon. And in the story See Our Country we learned about the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and The Everglades in Florida. We focused in on the letters Yy and Zz and introduced the sight words this and what. In learning centers we sorted our sight words, practiced writing Yy and Zz, sorted pictures by the initial sound /y/ or /z/, and wrote about places we like to visit. We also talked about which famous landmarks we would like to visit one day.
In Math we completed Topic 9 where we counted, read and wrote numbers to 20. Today we started Topic 10 where we will be Composing and Decomposing Numbers 11-19. Ask your K2er to tell you what it means to decompose a number!
This week we also talked about Earth Day which was on April 22nd. We brainstormed different things we can do to protect the Earth. Some of our ideas were:
- pick up trash
- use both sides of a piece of paper
- plant trees and flowers
- recycle bottles, cans, paper, plastic and newspapers
- use less energy by shutting off the lights and TV
- try not to waste water by taking shorter showers and not running the water while we brush our teeth
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