Literacy this week

The kids have been reading and writing new sight words every week.  So far this year, your child should know how to read and spell the following words: I, me, my, see, is, like, the, go, we, and can.  This week, the students have been identifying the ending sounds in words and learning the differences between a question and a statement.  We have also been perfecting our handwriting of lower case letters and discussed how words at the beginning of sentences must have uppercase letters.  We looked closely at the word The/the and realized that even though the words look different, they are the same!  Throughout the week we have focused on Jan Brett's story, "The Mitten."  With this book we have identified the characters, practiced many retellings using a mitten and each animal, and sequenced the events that happened in the story. Each child also read a just right version of the story. We have also compared this book to, "The Missing Mitten Mystery" and decorated our own mitten just like that of Nikki's!