ask me about Wednesday, November 6, 2024

What a busy day!  We started our day by looking and listening to different musical groups.  We talked about what a muscian is, and studied a few of the instruments from the clips I played for the children.  We drew pictures of muscians with their instruments or singing to show examples of musicans.  In our Knowledge lesson, we read the folktale Brementown Muscians.  This folktale is about animals who want to see the world but get a little sidetracked.  Ask me to tell you about the folktale Brementown Musicians. 
In Skills, we worked with the n sound.  We compared it to the m sound, which is a common confusion of sounds.  Saying the wounds and paying attention to what our mouth and tongue are doing helps children to feel and hear the difference in the sounds.  We practice blending and segemnting today.  
We talked about the beginning of a new marking period and how we are doing as learners.  We read a very silly story alled Wake Me Up in 20 Coconuts, by Laurie Keller.  We got pretty loud with this story!  This is a story of a character who lives in an apartement building.  The character is a know-it-all and when asked to wake their neighbor in 20 cocnuts is confused.  The know-it-all does not want to ask how long 20 cocnuts is because they don't want anyone to know they don't know what it is because they want others to think they know everything.  We talked about how saying "I don't know" is okay when you are learning.  While I don't want the children to say that all the time, we talked about how nobody knows everything and saying "I don't know: is okay, however, they might want to tell what they are thinking.  The purpose of the lesson was to get some of the children who are reluctant to share their ideas only when they are 100% sure to take more intellectual risks and raise their hand and participate even if they aren't sure of thei idea or answer.
In math we began a geometry unit.  This is a short unit, but a lot of fun!  We played a guessing game today with a big bag of flat and solid shapes.  We began to develop vocabulary used in describing hte shapes.  I am not sure how it happened, but there were a lot of hexagons in the bag, and children started just pulling hexagons out of the bag!  

Have a nice evening!
Miww Wolfe