Over the last few weeks, the children have taken a greater interest in reading. We have enjoyed books with lots of repetition, rhyme and picture cues, which has enabled the children to read them independently. In particular, we have been enjoying reading books by the author Eric Carle, which inspired many of the children to choose his books for their library books this week. It has been wonderful to see the children choose books and share them with each other during their free choice too. We have become buddies with Grade 3 who have been modelling how to 'Read to Someone,' one of the Daily 5 Cafe choices. The children even made their own 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?' book. Come and take a look at it the next time you are in school.
This week we also spent more time identifying different light sources. This has led to come interesting conversations about the sun and the moon and whether they are both sources of light. Next week we will be inquiring more deeply into the sun and then later the moon, to see if their initial ideas are correct. We also read 'The Dark' by Lemony Snicket and the children made connections to their own explorations during the dark days at school. Later, the children used the dolls house and torches to recreate the story.
In Math, we have been working hard on independence. The children have done a fantastic job of completing activities on different stations and then rotating to the next activities. We have been focusing on counting, number recognition, ordering numbers and writing numbers.