Week of Feb. 28- Mar. 4

This week in the classroom we continued to work on fluency and comprehension strategies in the reading groups. Children echoed text back to me to practice reading like they are talking, and then worked on identifying the author's purpose. Have your child practice this at home when they read.

Writing we wrapped up the narrative genre and will begin "How To" writing. Now children will need to think of the steps to make something. After we get a little practice with this type of writing, some of these stories we will make into small books that children will create and take home.

In Fundations we continue to tap out words. This will help with spelling and a child's phonemic awareness as they can really hear the first, middle, and end sounds of words.

Math we introduced 3D shapes and created a bar graph about the pets at home. After we created the graph, we discussed the results so that children continue to learn how to read a graph.