Apples

Poem: My Apple
Sight Words: it, look

Reading:
Comprehension Strategy: This week we learned the difference between reality and fantasy. Reality means that a story is real, what happens in the story could really happen in real life. Fantasy is fake. What happens in the story, is make believe. We started first by using different examples and giving a thumbs up for reality and thumbs down for fantasy. Later in the week we sorted cards that were fantasy and reality. We ended the week by sorting different books into reality and fantasy groups. At the end of the week we read a story from Jacob titled "Owl". After reading students had to determine if the story was reality of fantasy. They did great!

Accuracy: This week we continued learning about letter names and sounds. By next week we will have learned every letter of the alphabet. If your child has not mastered the letter names and sounds they will have a blue packet that will be coming home. Please work with your child at home on this skill. It is so important to master letter sounds and names in order to move onto bigger and more complex skills.
This week we learned the letter names and sounds to the letters Hh, Vv, Ww, and Kk. Each day we made our letter map, read our letter book, wrote the letter and made our letter hat!

Vocabulary: This week we read the story "Apples, Apples, Apples". The words we learned were recipe, diced, orchard, core, flesh, and stem.

Writing: This week we learned how to write the letters Hh, Vv, Ww, and Kk. After writing the letters we worked on our fine motor skills by coloring and cutting out our letter hats!

Math: We continued learning about 2D shapes this week. We created a chart together recording the number of sides and vertices as well as a real life example. These things are what they will need to know when being assessed next week on shapes. On Thursday students were able to show what they know by coloring the shape said aloud. It is our goal that students will be able to recognize each of the 4 2D shapes we learn about.

Vocabulary: This week our words were sides and vertices. A side is a straight line on the outside of a shape. A vertices is a corner where to sides meet. Next week students will begin to record these words in their math vocabulary journal using the app Book Creator on the ipad.

Content: This week our focus was APPLES! We started the week by learning the parts of an apple. Students had a smaller paper version that we labeled the parts of our apple picture. The rest of the week we spent exploring apples by writing down descriptive words on our circle map and doing an apple investigation with an apple we brought from home. Our apple investigation included measuring how many cubes tall our apple was. How heavy is was, what color it was, and if it still had it's stem.

We finished our week by painting our paper plate red and making an apple out of our circle map. On Friday we even made applesauce! We practiced dicing up apples and used a recipe to measure out ingredients to our instant pot. After adding the apples, water, and cinnamon we waited for it to cook, then enjoyed a yummy treat when it was finished.

SEL (Social Emotional Learning): Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

This week we continued learning about having a growth mindset. We practiced by drawing shapes one day. One of the shapes was a star and it was really hard! But no one gave up and said they couldn't do it. Instead we tried harder and worked through it! We also read the story, "Giraffes Can't Dance". This story is about a giraffe named Gerald. Everyone makes fun of him when he can't dance like everyone else. He doesn't give up and finds a rhythm that is just right for him and turns out to be really great! After reading we made a list of things we can't do YET. YET is the key word, because if we have a growth mindset we aren't going to give up. Even though we can't do them now, we're going to keep trying. 

We also read the story "The Dot". We were encouraged to draw a picture using one single dot on our paper. It was hard for some of us, but we ended up having some cool drawings! Ava decided to use her dot as the inside of her flower.