Finding New Strategies and Patterns

As you know Gerald and Piggie have been making the children laugh and motivating them to put their new found decoding strategies to the test.  We've been talking about: getting our lips ready to make the first sound of the word, stretching out the word to articulate all the sounds, skipping a hard word to see if you can figure it out from the words around it and checking to see if you what you read makes sense.  Lucky for us, Mo Willem's humor makes all of this a ton of fun!

 

In Math we've been working on seeing patterns as a strategy to predict what comes next in a series of numbers.  Using bikes and wheels as our example we teased out the concept of doubling (1 bike, two wheels- 2 bikes, 4 wheels etc.) and then made some observations about how counting by 2's could be a way to predict what would come next in our growing pattern. A careful look at the sticky notes and the white chart on the right will let you see the children's thinking about doubling and counting by 2's.