We continued our talk about transportation, focusing on trucks today. We discovered that some trucks can be small and some can be big. Some can even have more than 4 wheels! We read about 4 kinds of trucks: off-road dump trucks, logging trucks, car carriers, and snowplows. Ask your child what facts they can remember from our picture cards. We alos learned a new word today--"massive"--which means really large and heavy.
In order to complete a few of our assessments, it is important to go to a room that doesn't have posters of the alphabet and pictures of numbers and words put up all over the walls. So, today we took our pencils and writing boards down to an empty hall to show what we can do without any help from posters and charts! The students thought it was pretty neat to go out of our room to do work!
Many of the assessments we are doing right now are not reported on the report card during 1st trimester. They are used as a baseline to see how much progress students make throughout the year, and to help me better plan for large group and small group instruction. The first trimester report card is fairly short--only reporting on social behaviors and pre-literacy skills. During 2nd and 3rd trimester we start reporting on math, science, and more in-depth literacy skills the students have acquired.
During handwriting, the students learned how to correctly write the uppercase "T".
We did not have time for computer lab today, so we will see if we can squeeze it in at the end of the week.
p.s. Please remind your child to keep their "goofies" at home. We have had quite a few instances of acting goofy or crazy at school this week. Thank you!
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