Winter Wonderland

Here is our week in review

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /qu/ and /ou/

Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, /u/, /l/, /f/, /b/, /j/, /ai/,/oa/ /ie/ /ee/ /or/, /w/, /v/, /y/, /x/, /ch/ and /sh/, /ng/, and /th/

Popcorn Words

We learned: our, here, out

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me, am,  did, not, can, is, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, no, the, you, down, he, she, be

Reading
We started our fourth ELA unit this week titled WInter Wonderland. We got it started with a science experiment. We made a winter storm inside of a jar!

During our reading time we read two books and then compared them. The first story was a nonfiction book called Winter Wonderland by Jill Esbaum. This book gave us facts about winter holidays, weather,and activities. While reading this book we learned the vocab words astounds hinge vanish, and gentle. The second story we read was called Snow by Cynthia Rylant. This story was a fiction story about a town on a snowy day. We compared fiction and non fiction story elements using these two books.

As an art project we made a picture of children catching snowflakes on their tongues. Did you know the snowflakes VANISH when they touch our tongues? We learned that they melted on our tongue as if they had disappeared.

Our weekly reader reviewed fiction and non fiction stories with us. Then we read our non fiction weekly reader about animals in the snow. We discussed where in the library we would check out books like Bearenstein Bears and Pete the Cat and books about Lizards, Cats, and other animals.

Math

In math this week we continued looking at 3D shapes. We sorted them based on different categories including flat surfaces, roll, slide, stack. We also compared 2D and 3D shapes. The shapes have been some of our favorite centers. We got to use geoboards to make shapes, a robot shape book, color by shapes, and we made silly faces using shapes.

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