After calendar and a few wake-up songs, we got right into math. We reviewed grouping items in 10 groups. Students came up to the smartboard and arranged shapes in a better order to make us quicker and more accurate counters. I showed them how its easier to get confused when we don't organize our work. We also kept working on teen numbers. Using flash cards, students completed this expression "10 + 2= 12, so 10 and 2 is 12," with each teen number.

For language arts I briefly introduced the sight words where, for, me. We will ease into these more in the next 2 weeks, but we are beginning to test on them now so I wanted them to have a chance to learn them. Tomorrow we will also learn the word do. Again, these will be reinforced in the upcoming weeks.

We started all new stations. The students were very excited about a new game I made called sight word jenga. Basically its just the jenga game with sight words tapped to each block, so when they pull them they have to say the sight word. They also worked on sentence writing, upper case and lower case letter matching, beginning sounds, and testing with me. They did a lot of one-on-one reading today as we had two extra adults in the room! Awesome!!



 

We finished our day by making a snowman out of marshmallows and pretzels! Fun!