100 Days of School and Chinese New Year Celebrations!

In Readers Workshop we have been distinguishing the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words while reading. We have learned the differences between realism and fantasy. In Writers Workshop we have been writing detailed stories. When we write a story, we include who, what, where, and time words first, next, then, last. Please encourage your child to write stories at home! In math we have been practicing writing numbers 1-30, problem solving, ordinal numbers, and patterns. During our 100 days celebration we learned to count by tens to 100! In science we have been comparing and measuring using vocabulary such as longer,  taller, shorter, smaller, bigger, thicker, and thinner. We measured and compared classroom items, how tall we are, how long are arms are, and graphed the results!

On the 100th day of school we wore necklaces made with 100 things and graphed our types of necklaces!

We followed the directions to create the number 100!

We wrote what we would buy with $100!

Designing our Chinese Dragon

We celebrated Chinese New Year by watching a short video clip of the celebration in China, found China on our globe, and read books about Chinese New Year. On the 100th day of school we made a Chinese Dragon out of 100 paper plates! “Happy New Year” in Chinese is “Gung Hay Fat Choy!”

We are retelling the story by using “Give Me Five”

1. Who are the characters?

2. What is the setting?

3. What was the problem?

4. What was the solution?

5. What happened first, next, then, last?

Math Centers!

We played measuring games in science to see which friend could make the longest “snake.” We rolled the dice, landed on a number, and added cubes to our “snakes.”

Writing a poem using words that start with the letter D, our letter of the week

Group 3 in word study sorted words/pictures by the number of syllables

Group 1 in word study played rhyming bingo

Playing a sight word game at literacy centers

Enjoying reading from our book bins at the reading nook

Writing Center

One of our featured costumes this week in the Dramatic Play center was a construction worker!

Listening to a book on tape and completing a writing response in the listening center

On starfall.com at the computer center

"Look at my story!"

Sharing a book and new ideas in guided reading