Safe Touch Lesson: This week we had visitors from the NCADA come teach us an important lesson on safe touch. Students learned that is it never ok for anyone to touch your private parts. We learned that private parts are the parts our bathing suits cover. They did share that it is ok for a parent to touch them if helping to clean you or a doctor checking on your health. They learned to yell for help, run and tell a trusted adult.
Writing: We are continuing our show and tell writing unit. We learned about being brave spellers. The three strategies are stretch it out, write one sound at a time, and use the resources around the classroom such as the word wall, sound charts and sight word lists.
I modeled book talk using Wemberly Worried.
Reading: In reading this week, we learned about our next super power which is Book Talk Power! We learned in give our partner an introduction to our book, telling them the title and a little bit about the story, but we also don't want to give the ending away! Next, we learned how to retell the story on our fingers using five-finger retell. We practiced sharing the beginning, middle and end of our story to our partner.
During our phonics lessons, we studied our ABC charts. We made our own ABC chart with pictures and created new hand motions to our new chart.
Enrichment: Mrs. MacLean came and did an activity where students had to cut out shapes and create an invention to help people. It was fun to see what they came up with!
Math: This week we continued learning about composing and decomposing numbers. We played many games composing two numbers to make another and decomposing one number into two numbers. We also review one to one correspondence and pairing number names with numerals as well as one less, one more.
Brain Break!
Calendar: Every day we review the date, weekday, and month as well as the patterns on the calendar.
Shirt Decoration: This week students painted their own shirts to wear to the pumpkin patch today. They are acrylic paint and sharpies and can be washed!
Pumpkin Patch Field Trip:
What a great way to end our week! We had such a fantastic time today at Thies Farm's Pumkinland. The kids ran around and played for two hours, then we had lunch and returned safely to school.
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