Happy Wednesday!

This is our How Did You Do It wall for math strategies. Each day, we have a math problem that our kiddos have to solve. Today's problem was: How many kids are at your table? How can you show your answer. We work for a bit and then share our work. The kids discuss whether or not what a friend tried made sense. You can notice that our friend Aker is our FIRST friend to have a strategy on the wall.
When she wrote her answer, she wrote the number and circled it!
I saw many friends try this today! 

Our first reading strategy (what good readers do) is to recognize or read, sight words.
We call them snap words because you have to read them in a snap! Please visit our shutterfly page for the first 20 words and practice them at home. 

We also have a goal of learning our letters and sounds by Halloween! Please practice this at home too.

Today we talked about Reader Respect. These are the things we do when we read to self.

Here are some friends reading the survey. See how Autumn points to the words as she reads? Try this at home! 

We went for two minutes without 'breaking stamina.' We have to read quietly, stay in one spot, get started right away and work the whole time or stamina is broken! We are learning to be independent.

Couldn't resist a picture of these cuties who built a HUGE ship during choicetime. They were so proud :)