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We are closing in on Quarter 1! In math we continue to compose, decompose, and compare numbers to the thousandth place. Next week will be a mix of skip counting practice, game days to reinforce place value concepts, and our second unit assessment! Here we come!! It was a busy week in phonics this week! We learned about twin letters: consonants that are doubled following syllables with short vowel sounds. Which consonants should we double, you ask? Silly Zebras Love Fries (s, z, l, f). We also learned that if twin letters come after an “a,” the vowel sound is […]

What a week! In math we are deep into our unit on Place Value. We’ve been representing and comparing numbers in the thousands! We’re also pushing our skip counting skills to their limits and extending them. Along the way we’ve been learning new math games and enjoying playing them with friends. In phonics this week we learned several letter combinations that create sounds that are GLUED together. That means we count them as 1 sound (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk). We practiced building words, sounding out and spelling words with glued sounds, played a couple new games

The Betas had a very full week! In math we began a new unit focusing on Place Value. We reviewed the importance of the placement of digits within a number and how it affects their value. These kids already know so much! When we finish our work early, we learn a new game to play to help reinforce skills. This week we used base ten blocks often to build numbers, so that the Betas have a good, concrete understanding of the quantities that various numbers represent. In phonics this week we reviewed blends commonly found at the end of words

The Betas keep chugging along! In math, we wrapped up our first unit on Number Sense and did an amazing job on the unit test! We had a well-deserved game day in between. Next up on the math agenda: Place Value! We’re starting off the year by focusing on fundamental concepts to set us up for future success. In phonics this week we reviewed beginning blends (gr, dr, br, tr, cr, pr, fr), 3 letter blends (scr, spl, str, spr, squ), and diagraph blends (shr, thr) We played Tic Tac Toe (5 in a row) by reading words with blends

The Betas were very busy this week! In math, we practiced ordering large numbers – in the hundreds! We also spent a day reviewing tally marks and tallied almost the entire classroom! Finally, at the end of the week we tackled identifying patterns in a series of numbers, using the pattern to determine a skip count rule, and using the rule to continue the series of numbers. It’s tricky stuff but the Betas did great! In phonics this week we reviewed blends that begin with /s/ or contain /l/. We played two new games – one to boost fluency and