Buddies

Today we had our first introduction to our Buddies!!! Heidi Hill's 3rd and 4th grade class will be joining us a couple times a month. We will read with our buddies as well as do projects through out the year. It is a time for the older kids to teach the younger kids and gives the younger kids an opportunity to learn from someone besides an adult, as well as get to know some big kids in the school.  

In Math we continue to work with the number 10. We played a game today called Mix and Fix and we went shopping with 10 pennies. Yesterday we walked on a path through a village that had the numbers 1-10 on it. We learned how to do wet dog counting as well. Ask your kids how they do "wet dog" counting.

This week in Language Arts we are learning two new letters, Pp and Jj.  These two letters plus what we have learned so far make 17 letters, that we have learned from the alphabet! They have learned the letter names, they use the picture clue to help them remember and they can say the sound to each of the letters we have learned.  Below is a couple pictures of kids sounding out words and writing them on their own. We continue to work with wiki sticks (class favorite), sand, white boards, as well as many other hands on activities. Partner reading continues to be a fun favorite! There is a collection of books they can choose from with their partner. They are also getting really great at being able to tell what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the books.

               Max, Eva and Maddie sounding out and writing words.

Today we read Wet Dog by, Elise Broach  which was brought in by Max. Thank you Max for sharing your book. It is a great tie in to our wet dog counting!