marks the month we hit our 100th day of school. How far we've come in those days! We have finished our pre-decodable readers, which have been full of the sight words we've been learning, and have moved on to decodable readers, in which the children will utilize their phonics skills to a greater extent. The children can not only put into practice their knowledge of letter sounds in their reading, but in their writing as well and can now add words to their picture stories. All year we have been learning the mechanics of writing. We know that all sentences need a capital letter to start and an end mark (.?!) at the end. We also know that sentences are composed of individual words with spaces between (we use our finger to 'finger space' our words when writing).
This month we learned about presidents--especially two whose birthdays we celebrate; Lincoln and Washington. There are many good age-appropriate biographies on these famous historical characters, and the children enjoyed books such as Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner, Abe Lincoln Remembers, by Ann Turner, and A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln, and A Picture Book of George Washington both by David A. Adler. In honor of George Washington, we made three cornered hats to wear and learned the old song My Hat It Has Three Corners.
My hat, it has three corners,
Three corners has my hat
And had it not three corners,
It would not be my hat!
Three corners has my hat
And had it not three corners,
It would not be my hat!
And take a look at the fantastic project we did in recognition of Abraham Lincoln! The children painstakingly drew lines with a ruler on the outline of Abe, and then colored a pattern with red and blue. This was the result!
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