Over the past several days, the girls were introduced to our last digraphs, "wh, th, ch". We brainstormed some wh, th, ch words as a class, then the girls went back to their seats to write several words on their own. The girls partnered up and completed a digraph worksheet together. We will continue to focus on all the digraphs we have learned (wh, th, sh, ch) in our word study period.
Last Friday, we continued with our graphing unit in math by teaching the girls how to analyze a picture graph. For the past few days, the girls have been reading and working with simple bar graphs. Today the girls learned a different way to gather information - by using a picture graph. Many thanks to all parents who sent in pictures of pets (and to those who did not have a chance, do not worry, your daughter sketched her pets). We used these pictures to create our own class graph titled, "Pre-First Pets." Our new graph is hanging in our classroom, so please feel free to come by and check out what pets are famous in Pre-First.
Many thanks to Arameh Rothwell for being our Mystery Reader last week!
Friday afternoon we started talking about St. Patrick's Day and the girls exchanged ideas about why they are lucky. They then returned to their seats, wrote about what made them feel lucky (one of our favorites is "when my brother says 'I love you' ") and made their own leprechauns. These funny little men are hanging on our classroom bulletin board.
We began our geometry unit today by reading Perfect Square by Michael Hall and the girls brainstormed the attributes of a square. They also learned some new vocabulary words that we will be using quite a bit during our unit. (Make sure to ask them what a vertex is?) They then returned to their seats and had to create squares out of yarn. This was a difficult task for some, as the girls had to be creative in order to make a square with equal sides.
The girls are almost finished presenting their hibernation dioramas. We were extremely impressed with how the girls spoke clearly, displayed confidence and gave interesting facts about their animals. The girls learned a lot from each other and were greatly supportive of their classmates.
