LTA 1 (2025-2026)

  Everyone was hard at work this month! We continued working on letter recognition and letter sounds by students working on their names and visiting Vicky Violet (V), Oscar Orange (O), Walter Walrus (W), and Fix it Max (X) in Letterland. We worked on rhyming words, recognizing first sounds in words, and reading CVC words with various word families. We read the stories "Look Up!" and "Kiki's Day Under the Sun" as  students practiced identifying details in the text and character feelings. Students also worked to communicate if they understood or had questions about a text by using a communication board, signing or verbalizing. In math students composed and decomposed sets up to 5 as they continued to work on using one-to-one correspondence. In science we leaned about the weather, compared day and night, observed characteristics of the earth/moon/sun, and worked to identify the earths materials (soil, rock, sand, etc). For writing, we observed photos of our class p...

  In the month of February, students learned about non-living and living things through our zoo pretend play center. In science we compared and learned about the needs of plants, animals, and people. In ELA, students practiced identifying key points in stories, comparing familiar texts, and identifying a text as telling a story as we read "Where Is My Baby?" and "At the Petting Zoo". Our sight words this month were here, said, up, and we. We practiced segmenting and blending sounds in words with CVC words. In writing, students practiced writing about simple facts, such as, what color Bogie the dog is and how it feels cold in the winter. In math, students continued to work on number identification and counting as they began composing and decomposing. We composed and decomposed sets of 5 and 10 through singing 5 Little Monkeys, 5 Green Frogs, and reading The Hungry Frog while using number bonds. We had so much fun exchanging Valentine's with one another and dressi...