Miss Potter's Corner: 1 More Week!

It's almost Christmas and our classroom is buzzing!

In Language arts this week, we are continuing to practice letter writing to our elf, Snowflake Jingles George! This week they wrote to him about things they would like to wish for for Christmas!

We are also continuing with our Daily 5 routing and have made it up to 10 mins of Read to Self!! This is a huge accomplishment for these guys! Every week I am so amazed with how much they have grown as readers.

With our phonics we have started talking about long vs. short vowels. Short vowel sounds are in words like cat, bet, fit, fun, and cot. Our long vowel sounds are when the vowel says its name, as in bait, kite, cute, bone and speek. We have talked about some of the familiar letter patterns that make the long A sound. Try quizzing your child to see if they can tell the difference!

We played a fun vowel game - Word Fishermen! Students used vowels to make new words from the cards in the middle of the pond!

In Math this week we have started talking about subtraction! We now know that subtraction is when we take something away from a larger number. Subtraction can be a tricky concept for some students, it might help to give them some practice at home!

To introduce this we read the book Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons! I love this book! It's a great way to introduce the concept of subtraction. After reading the book we re-enacted the story using buttons in groups of 4 and then made our own little Pete the Cat books.

Playing Simon Says with Eyes closed, only using our Hearing sense!

In Science we are continuing to talk about our 5 Senses! Ealier in the week we did a reaction time experiment! We tested our reaction times (how long it takes our senses to send a message to our brain and our brain tell our body what to do) first by doing a ruler catch.