Day 3!

Today, on our third day of school, our class continued learning and practicing routines and care of our materials. We explored some new math materials and play things, and we started practicing care of our books. The students have been looking at books daily and we have read a couple books aloud each day but today we really took the time to start getting into our classroom library! We also continued our review of consonants, vowels, letter sounds, and stretching out words to spell as we played the Mystery Name Game. This year I plan to add more purposeful work with tricky vocabulary words into reading instruction so today we did our first activity to give this a try. I identified the words "envious," scarcely," and "informed," on chart paper, then read aloud the book Chrysanthemum and had the students identify when they heard these words come up in the story. When we found one of the words we re-read the sentence it was in, decided on kid friendly definitions or synonyms for the word, and wrote them on our chart. We then tried the sentence, trying it interchangeably with the new word and one of its synonyms, making sure it made sense both ways. We will add these new words to a chart in class and keep adding interesting new vocabulary to it as we learn more throughout the year! Below are some photos of today's activities. Have a wonderful long weekend and see you Tuesday!

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