Monday, January 26

 Monday, January 26 

 Popcorn Word: but

Color Word Focus: black
 Phonics: We begin our work on word families...today's family is -at

 Language Arts: Comprehension Strategy: Summarizing
Using the poster of Little Miss Muffet, the kids will work on summarizing what they see in pictures and read in text.
 Writer's Workshop:  We are beginning a unit about Book Reviews

Math: Match Me-Plus One or Minus One (Day 3)
With partners, partner 1 builds a set using cubes. Partner 2 rolls a cube that has +1 or -1 on it. Partner 2 matches the same number of cubes that partner 1 has and adds or subtracts one to their set. An important piece is to do 'math talk'. After the sets are built, the children should say something like this: "8 is one more than 7." or "7 is one less than 8."
Switching from +1 to -1 can be tricky. This lesson will be repeated a couple of times for the kids to get additional practice.

DAILY 5
Time for Kids Topic: Chinese New Year
 Smart Room Highlight: Practicing our sight words while bouncing on the rebounder.

  Music Today
 
~Thank you for continuing to support our efforts to help Haiti families receive goats.
~We enjoyed celebrating Leila's summer birthday last week!