If you had a chance to take a peak at the blog this morning, you probably noticed that I gave you a "sneak peek" at what I introduced to the class this morning. Today was our first day of poetry journals! Each child received his/her own journal with a poem of the day in it. For the next two weeks our journals will contain poems all about colors (as we are learning about color words). We will only use our poetry journals on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (of course we start off schedule!). These journals will expose the students to new and old sight words, while working on fluency when reading. They really enjoyed their first day with them!
Red
Red is a stop
sign.
Red is a rose.
Red is an apple,
And a funny, clown's nose.
Below is a picture of the math activity for today. This week I introduced a lesson on the different ways numbers can be represented (dominoes, dice, etc.). This is to work on the skill of subitizing (Illinois Early Learning State Standard). Subitizing is "instantly seeing how many." From a Latin word meaning suddenly, subitizing is the direct perceptual apprehension of the numerosity of a group.
In this activity, the students were paired up and used one die to play the game. Eventually, the class will play this game using two die (or dice) to work on subitizing and addition.
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