Our Learning in Late October

 The children enjoyed hearing fairy tales and fables from around the world during our Knowledge lessons. We are talking about the characters and settings of each tale as we learn about the story events. 

After reading a beautiful picture book version of Red Riding Hood, the children drew pictures of the beginning, middle, and end of the tale and also made a set of puppets we can use to retell the story.

In Eureka math, we have been learning about the properties of addition and how to solve for a missing addend in a math equation. 

This week we will begin our 2nd Unit of Skills literacy learning as we explore silent "e" and long vowels. The children will have a new decodable book of stories to read. 

Retelling Red Riding Hood using a felt story set

We made our own Red Riding Hood puppets

Finding their own cozy workspaces makes learning special

Our new short vowel word game from our class wish list

math buddies

Retelling Cinderella with story cards

Mrs. Kane and Mrs. Hunt read a story to our class called 
Listening to My Body

Using cubes to represent addition number stories

friends being helpful

More Red Riding Hood Characters

All of these puppets brought big smiles to all of us

Retelling a story from our Skills decodable book

Tricky words we have learned so far

Nico feeling proud of his work

Early October Learning

 We have begun learning about some of the systems of the human body and how our body systems all work together. The children are making fantastic drawings in their journals as we learn about this topic.

In CKLA Skills lessons we have begun our first decodable book called Snapshots. The children enjoy reading the stories with a partner and can answer discussion questions in writing. 

In math, we are exploring different number expressions that make a specific total. We are using a specific set of colored counter disks to find ways to make a total of 6, 7, 8, and 9. The children are playing fun games along the way such as Shake Those Disks. See the pictures included here. 

Our Knowledge Wall
The Human Body

Our Knowledge Journal
for the 5 body systems

Using colored dot counters to make 
a specific total finding all the possible combinations

Our light table has a fall theme