Literature Centers and Spines

The girls have been learning our routine of working in centers while we meet with our reading groups.  Here is a taste of what your daughters do during Reader's Workshop.

In reading groups, we always start our session with phonics work.  Here are the girls making words with different word families.

Then while certain girls are in reading groups the rest of the class is in centers. In this center the girls are matching short a words with corresponding pictures.

Completing a short a puzzle.

Pumpkin Matching: finding the number, number word, and matching dots.

Pumpkin Addition:  Solving addition sentences by matching the problem with the answer, then copying the sentence down.

Matching short e words with their corresponding picture.

We continued learning about the skeleton today during science and we focused on the spine.  The girls took a straw and then had to thread a pipe cleaner through it.  They tried to bend the pipe cleaner and found that it was difficult to make the straw move.  We then took the straw and cut it into several pieces and re-thread the pipe cleaner back through it.  The girls discovered that the pipe cleaner now could easily bend, just as the vertebrae allow our backs to bend.