Lost Tooth

Today's exciting moment was Kaiya losing her second tooth! She shared with the class this morning that it was really loose. A few hours later she asked to go to the restroom and came back with a tooth in hand! We packaged it up so she could get it home safely and played the "Tooth" song for her!

We have been working on a unit titled Red, White, and Blue and colored pictures of bald eagles this morning upon entering the classroom! We added them to our Concept/Question board which already had our hand prints in red, white, and blue, and read A Flag for our Country. We learned many new things about our country's first flag such as it was ordered by General George Washington at the end of the war with England. It had 13 stars shaped in a circle to symbolize the 13 original colonies along with the 13 stripes in red and white. Betsy Ross drew and sewed the first flag and it was liked by so many that she was asked to sew more!

In Math, we began our Topic #9 on "Numbers between 20 and 30." We read our interactive story together and then worked on them individually at our desks.

For reading, we continued working on blending words together and creating new words by changing the final sound. For example: If I said the word mean and asked you to change the ending sound to /t/, the new word would be meat! Changing the ending sound on cat to a /p/ sound would make it cap.

We also read the poem titled America the Beautiful which was written to express America's beauty. I then played the song for the students and we sang it several times through! Our new vocabulary word was "brotherhood." Students learned that this included boys, girls, men, and women! When discussing the line, from sea to shining sea, I brought down the United States map and showed the students the Pacific Ocean on the West coast where we live and the Atlantic Ocean on the East coast. This helped them to see that America was mostly the land in between the two! All in all, it was a jam-packed day full of intense new concepts!

I'm sorry this post is all out of order... I'm having trouble cutting and pasting in a live view and will either need to figure it out or put it together differently tomorrow!