This week in our social skills lesson, we talked about how people can have different feelings about the same situation. I listed various situations and students showed me with their facial expressions how it would make them feel. We saw some of us were excited about the event and others were not.
We also read a book about empathy, since that is a word we are learning about in our social skills program.
This week, we had a Leah from the NCADA (National Council of Alcohol and Drug Association) come and do a lesson with us for our counseling time. They come every year and do four lessons with the kids in all grade levels. In kindergarten they focus on friendships. We met two friends, a porcupine and a teddy bear. We learned that we want to treat people like teddy bears and not like porcupines. Ask your child about it!
In reading this week, we learned about book talk power. We learned that with our partners we can talk about the book before we read, introducing the book title and a little summary of what it is about. We also learned about five finger retell, and how to retell a stories details across our fingers from beginning to end.
Students go to their literacy centers every day after our reading lesson and ind/partner reading time so I can meet with small groups.
In math, we worked on counting sequencing, one to one correspondence, using numbers to show one more and one less using our number lines, and counting using our fingers to help us.
In science, we started a new unit on living and non-living things. We explored pictures cards and groups sorted them into two piles of whether they thought they were living or not. Then, we read a book and watched a video to learn more. Then we went back through those pictures and decided if they need food and water, can move on its own, and need air to breathe then it is a living thing. We went outside to sketch in our science journals things that we found were living.
In writing, we continue to work on showing and telling in our writing. This week, we worked more on writing stories about our favorite places to go. Students are working on drawing a picture and writing words to tell where there favorite places are and why it is their favorite place.
A few more friends shared their show and tell this week, too!
I have added a tab on our class website that has links to websites that your child could go to on a device to practice his or her reading and math skills. I will be adding more as I find them!
Have a great weekend!
Caroline McGee
