Today we started our Language Arts curriculum. This consists of daily lessons involving phonemic awareness, phonics, high-frequency words, reading, literature, comprehension, robust vocabulary, and writing. We worked on following one-step directions playing the game "Simon Says." The boys and girls are still working on listening for when simon doesn't say! We then worked on word segmentation/dividing spoken sentences into individual words. The students had to listen to what I spoke, and decide if it was a sentence or a word. If it was a sentence, we worked on breaking it down into individual words (i.e. Raise your hand. Raise....your.....hand). We clapped for each word to help us better understand how to divide the sentence into words.
We then worked on recognizing the letter M. In our curriculum, we start with letters that are easiest for students to say. The students had to identify uppercase and lower case m's and then practice writing them using their white boards. After that, we learned our first high frequency word: I. Students practiced using it in a sentence. We did two activities to reinforce our learning of M and I. We finished out our language arts by reading Eric Carle's book From Head to Toe, talking about the words prediction and author as well as our robust vocabulary ability, confident, and reverse.
We flew through math working on visualizing a given number of objects and then did an activity drawing 5 hats, 3 cats, 4 stars, and 2 cars.
Tomorrow is some testing on the computers as well as in the classroom.
What a packed Monday we had!
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