How perfect to be working on our -ay word chunk this week and have our first birthday in our class! One of our week’s word wall word was “play.” We used this to talk about the -ay word chunk. We did a center activity where the kids highlighted the -ay chunk and made a strip of -ay words for a hungry lion. While the kids did this activity, they got to wear our birthday headbands that represent the -ay word chunk.
Read alouds during our Listening and Learning is a great time to Readers’ Theater. We talk about the setting and the characters. Students take turn to act out parts of the story. This shows great reading comprehension. Ask your child if they got to be the milkmaid or a half chicken (medillo pollito) or even the wind. On Friday we acted out mischievous Peter Rabbit. Students took on various roles of the rabbit, even a net, and one of our dad helpers played the role of Mr. McGregor chasing the naughty rabbit.
We love our hands-on math Investigation math series. Here we are playing “Double Card Comparison.” We played it first on the smartboard. Next we played with cards and partners. Then we played the game and recorded it on our student activity workbook. Students are looking at their number. What’s your strategy: count one-by-one, recognize a set, see a group, etc.?