LTA 1 (2025-2026)

                                                  In the month of November, we have been learning and exploring through old fashion pretend play center as we learn about how things were long ago versus now. Students have been practicing cooking food over a fire, using a wash board to wash clothes, and building a home from long ago (made of logs). In our usual housekeeping center, students have been pretending to cook on the stove and wash clothes in the washing machine like we do today. In math, we began our counting unit and practiced counting with stories like Bear Counts and Animals at the Zoo. Students had fun exploring numbers, counting out various objects, and counting to tell how many. In ELA we read "The Pioneer Village" and "Long Ago or Today?" as we worked to identify key details and main topics, identify illustrations and inform...

We are enjoying Fall in LTA 1! In pretend play, we explored forces in motion through an apple orchard and pumpkin patch set-up. Students enjoyed fall activities of piling up leaves, picking/pulling apples off the tree, pushing the apple cider cart, and sorting pumpkins.  In science, we utilized our pretend play center to reinforce classification of objects by size, shape, and color.  In literacy we read "Taj's Science Fair Project" and "The Apple Test". During our stories, we worked to identify key details and objects that paired with the books we were reading.  We visited more Letterland characters this month and learned new sight words.  In Letterland we visited Dippy Duck (d), Harry Hatman (h), Munching Mike (m), Talking Tess (t), and Sammy Snake (s).   In math, we focused on all things shapes and practiced counting too.  We worked on identifying shapes, sorting shapes of the same orientation, and putting two parts of a shape together to create a whole s...