We've been working hard all week on learning the routines of our Daily Five literacy rotations. We are getting really good at Read to Self, Read with a Partner, Listen to Reading, Word Work and Work on Writing. The stories we've written so far are very impressive. Please continue to have your child log onto RAZ-Kids from home.
In math we've been learning about tally marks and what to use them for. We discussed how to use tally marks to keep track of counting. It is easier and quicker to count by 5's then ones than it is to count by 1's all of the time. Remembering to cross on the fifth count every time is confusing for some of us. If you can, practice at home! We learned a new game today called Roll & Tally. We rolled a dice (in some cases two) and tallied the number that we rolled. We also kept track of how many times we rolled which numbers by tallying as well. Other skills we practice every day are counting by 10's, 5's, and 2's (this is the trickiest one- practice often!) and writing numbers.
One skill we know students are going to need is typing. We've added a typing rotation to our literacy centers to practice locating letters on the keyboard. Once we are familiar with the letters, we will begin to learn about the home-row and where to place our (tiny) fingers. We use netbooks for this because the keyboard on a netbook is more condensed than a laptop or desktop. We are lucky to have so many wonderful resources at our school and in our classroom.
It was been a wonderful start to the school year, I'm looking forward to another 5 day week to really settle into our classroom routines.
We have P.E. on Tuesday and Thursday each week. Please remember to send your child in with sneakers on these days.
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