We started our day by analyzing these five photographs. The children noticed the lights first, then later on the darkness. We watched a short video from National Geographic about Diwali.
We are moving along in Really Great Reading. We are almost done with the first Unit about sounds. We worked on blending today, peeling off the first sound, and the /h/ sound. Ask me to tell you what my mouth does when I made the /h/ sound.
We listened to a silly story called George Washington's Cows, by David Small. George Washington's animals did some amazing things, or did they? Ask me to tell you about the animals and what they did.
We read a short biography about George Washington. We compared the three books we have read and decided whether they were fiction, non-fiction or a little of both.
In math, we practiced counting-on going forward and backward. We also used ten frames to show different ways to make groups of 6-9.
We had a great day!