ask me about tuesday, october 15, 2024

We started the computer activities that go with CKLA Amplify, called Boost.  I helped pairs of children log on, but we will work more with this later on in the week.  If you still have the paper I sent home with the log on information, you could have them practice on the paper.  I highlighted the letters and numbers they will need so that they won't have to hunt around so much.  Getting used to finding them and remembering the numbers and word will help them to log in quicker and have a little more time working.  The great thing about Boost is that it starts each child from where they are, not just all the children starting at the same point.  This took quite a bit of time today!  
We were able to work with the sound of o.  We practiced the sound and noticed what our mouth, lips and air do when making the sound.  Then we said the short a sound to compare.  
Mo Willems, the amazing author of The Pigeon and the Piggie and Elephant series of books, has a workshop on YouTube.  Some of the videos are from his Snack Doodles series that came out of the pandemic when Mo began presenting short activities for children online.  The videos are just two or three minutes, and he introduces some pretty rigorous vocabulary, then uses a letter to doodle something.  Some of the letters are upper case and some lower case, so we will try and do the lower case letters as we are working with them in our Skills lessons right now.  The kids are bringing home a bird on an egg, which is not one of Mo's most clever doodles, but it was perfect for getting started.  Guided drawing is a great way for the children to build confidence in their drawing, and the way Mo looks at the letters and talks about what it could be is a great way of thinking about things in a different way and coming up with more than one possible response.  The children seemed to like it!
We started the chapter book The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown.  The kids are hooked, I'm hooked, and we can't wait to read on.  Because the chapters are so short we were able to read three or four.  Ask me to tell you what happened so far in the story.
In math we worked with story problems.  We did a quick warm up with ten kids working to put the numbers one to ten in order without talking.  Each actor had a piece of construction paper with one number, and they needed to line up from one to ten.  It took a while, so we will try it again tomorrow with other students.  The I told a story about going to a birthday party and the children had to act out what was happening with groups of them sitting down or doing different things, and the audience counting to see how many were in each group.  We were checking to see that we still had ten even though we were sorting them into two groups in different ways.

Have a great evening!
​Miss Wolfe