ask me about tuesday, december 3, 2024

We started our day studying photographs of rain.  We thought about words that describe rain.  The children did a great job of coming up with words that described how heavy the rain is coming down in the photographs we studied.  I was hoping to get to a science lesson later in the day, but this will have to do for today.  Of course, no study of rain would be complete without a peek at somebody thoroughly enjoying the rain.  Enjoy!

In reading, we reviewed the short vowel e.  This is a tricky vowel that turns up in a lot of our work in CKLA.  We practiced writing consonant-vowel-consonant words and wrote a short sentence today on the whiteboards.  We started to make vowel sticks but will need to finish those another day.  We will use the vowel sticks to identify the vowel in three letter words.  
We also practiced writing another tricky word.  I introduced the word "the."  This is a tricky word because we have not learned the th digraph and the /e/ in this words is not the short sound the children are learning now.  So this is a word they must memorize.  We took time to practice writing it together on white boards by saying the word, saying and writing the letters in the word, and the saying the word again.  We do this to build fluency, so as they are writing and repeating, I slowly get faster as I am leading them in writing and spelling out loud.
In math we worked with longer and shorter.  We are making sure we get our words in the right place as we compare items that are longer or shorter.  We are also working hard not to use the words bigger and smaller, but are more specific in describing size.  
December is Diversity Month.  Today we learned about the word diversity.  We talked about the definition of diversity, what race is, and how diversity includes many ways we are different.  As we go through this month reading books and talking about diversity, we will also be very aware of how much we are also the same.  Before you watch this video, if you decide to, ask me to show you the word diversity and friend in sign language.  Enjoy this video.  I also put in a basic definition of diversity so you know how we are defining in class.  

Have a nice evening!
​Miss Wolfe