Red, White, and Blue

Reader's Workshop: Our mini-lesson today focused on strategies to help beginning readers. Emphasis was placed on two strategies - First, students were encouraged to place their finger under the first letter of the word they are reading. If they can decode the initial sound, it may help to guess what the word will be. Second, students were instructed that if they cannot sound out the words phonetically, they should use the illustrations to figure out the word from meaning.

Art: Since this week's letter is Bb, we completed a directed draw of a butterfly. Students learned about symmetry (things are the same on one side as they are on another). They designed identical wings and used watercolor to paint them.

Social Studies: We discussed the colors of the American Flag once again - red, white, and blue. We created another page for our Flag Book which explains the colors of the flag. Students pasted colored paper to create the page and wrote out the words "red" , "white", "and blue".

Music: TOday we began to learn our music for the Spring Concert. We learned "The Worm Song" and practiced it several times. We also were introduced to "This Land is Your Land" which we will also be learning the sign language to go along with.