Sonlight Week 16

We are still working on The Story of Dr. Dolittle this week. We read about inventions such as the tin can and the ice box and we learned about plants. We read about Ida Scudder, a medical missionary to India.

We read about Daniel and his friends in bible.

In Math, I showed J how to use unifix cubes to solve addition problems. She uses one color for the top addend and another color for the bottom, then counts the blocks together. This will be an activity that she will work and check by herself for more math practice. I am trying to put together work items that she can self start so I can work more with the tot. I will create a math sheet for her to record her answers so I can make sure she is understanding.

In her math book, we are learning about perimeter. I showed J how to solve for the perimeter using our blocks. She would add the blocks to each side and then count them together. Using the blocks helps her to add the four digits.

We practiced telling time. One thing I have noticed about Horizons Math is that they tend to forgo reviewing concepts learned earlier. I try to review with her as much as I can remember. We are getting ready to start her new math book and I noticed time was coming up again, so we reviewed what she already knew.

 

J is her mystery letter of the week. That's her favorite letter, of course. She added her name to the letter page.

She worked on drawing a jellyfish for her letter.

This was a new way to review her sight words. It is called Roll, Say and Keep Gingie. I added six of her sight word cards and J would roll a die. If she could read the word in the numbered slot, she could keep the card. We worked through all of her sight words like this. It was much better than just reading the cards. (I just use the game board and not the gingerbread cards.) I love playing learning games to reinforce learning.

J used our new salt bin to practice writing her J's.

J practicing her J's as well as sentence writing.

I printed J's sight words on yellow paper and we added them to our word wall. This is a project that I had been wanting to do for awhile but I was limited on wall space. I took down the map and charts that I had and replaced them with letter. I then added her words that we had been working on from her reading program. I feel that this would be a better use for the wall.

Then I had her write a sentence using any of the words on her wall. I am hoping this will be a good resource for her writing as well as for reviewing her reading. We are moving on...week 17 on its way. I hope that your week went well, see you soon.

Links

Differentiated Kindergarten  Roll, Say, and Keep game, freebie.

Oceans of First Grade Fun has a free Roll and Read Word game based on short A words.

Over the Hills has another free Roll and Read Sight Word Game.