This week, we have
reviewed the sounds and spellings for the n, s, m, short a, short i, h, and p.
We started an activity called “blending chart” this week too. During blending
chart, the kids are asked to isolate sounds as well as blend them together. We
talked a lot about how these words may be easy for the kids to read, it’s
important to recognize word patterns and read individual sounds as ONE ELEMENT
of a comprehensive language arts program (well- we don’t use those exact words
in first grade). The kids know that blending chart helps them become better
readers as well as better spellers (the short story J).
In math, we are learning
about how two “parts” make a “whole”. We are practicing academic vocabulary
such as “sum” (the answer to an addition problem or the whole), “addend” (the
parts in the number sentence), vertical, and horizontal. We used dominoes to
show that an addition sentence can be either vertical or horizontal and that
the order of the addends doesn’t matter.
In science, we read
several “stories” in our science readers on plants and what they need to grow.
We planted wheat seeds in a straw and made a hypothesis about if they will grow
without soil or not.
