Can you believe it...we have actually gotten in TWO weeks in a row of school without a snow day! I feel like everyone (including myself) is now back into our routines.
This week in ELA we finished up Unit 6 which was all about weather. We talked about all the different ways we can prepare for bad weather. We certainly have had enough practice preparing for snowy weather, that's for sure! We read the stories Waiting Out the Storm and Be Safe in Bad Weather. Our vocabulary words were: prepare, safe, notice, celebration, enough. We reviewed all of our sight words with a focus on: are, he, is, little, my, she, was, with. Everyone has been working hard on sounding out, spelling and writing words. We wrote about the weather for the day in our journals and practiced writing weather words. Next week we will be starting Unit 7 where we will be talking about different kinds of animals.
In Math we started Topic 10 titled "Composing Numbers 11-19." We discussed what it means to compose something (to create) and came up with ways we can compose numbers. When looking at the number 11 we talked about how it is made up with a group of ten and 1 more. In looking at the number 14 one student stated "if 14 is made with a group of ten and 4 more then 16 must be made with a group of 10 and 6 more." We wrote number sentences to match the ten frames.
We also had a fun week celebrating the many wonderful stories by Dr. Seuss. Friday we closed up the week by having a "Mystery Reader" come read to us. All the classroom teachers at JA were sent to a different grade to read to them. Mrs. Londo, a 1st grade teacher, read Oh the Places You'll Go! to our class. While she was reading the K2ers had a special visit from The Cat in the Hat.
Later in the day we paired up with a 3rd grade class to be book buddies. The 3rd graders read us stories and then the K2ers read to them. It was a fun time!
We ended the day with a special Dr. Seuss treat...I challenged the class to bring in at least 20 completed Books & Beyond sheets and they did it. I am so proud of them!!! We watched the movie "Horton Hears a Who." As you can see on our tracker to the right of the screen, we have now completed 131/176 stations towards our ice cream party at the end of the year. We have had some students come and leave K2 this year so the total amount of stations needed kept changing. At this point I am going to keep it as 176 stations needed to earn the ice cream party. Even if a new student moves in it will not change. At this point of the year I do not think it would be fair for the new student to be expected to complete 8 stations and it would not be fair for the class not to earn the ice cream party because a new student moved to the class. So keep reading...I would LOVE to give out a reading medal to EVERY one of my K2ers at the Books & Beyond ceremony in May.
Don't forget to change your clocks Saturday night...it MUST be a sign that spring IS going to be here soon. We may still have snow on the ground until summer at this rate but spring has to come, right?!
Have a fabulous weekend!
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