ELA
We began our Skills 3 unit this week:
In Unit 3, students will begin to make connections between sounds and symbols. They will continue to practice blending sounds into words and they will be taught several of the symbols used when reading and writing. Specifically, they will learn the most common way to spell eight of the sounds of English
Skills: This week we learned the following sounds: /m/, /a/ & /t/. We practiced listening for words that begin with those letters, as well as orally blending words that begin with those sounds. After learning the three sounds, we began to practice a new skill called chaining. With this skill, students look at the letter in a cvc word, or vc word, say the sounds, then blend the sounds to make a word. So they began reading!!!!
The chain that we practiced was "mat" --> "at --> mat --> at
Knowledge: This week we learned about the sense of taste. Students learned that taste buds are on the tongue and help us taste sweet, sour, bitter & salty foods (see photo below). They also learned that the sense of smell helps us to taste foods. Vocabulary words that were introduced were: congested, flavorful, pucker, saliva & taste buds. We also tasted lemons for sour, pretzels for salty, and marshmallows for sweet. We did not taste bitter...they know that coffee has a bitter taste.
We also learned about the sense of touch and how this sense protects us. The picture above taught them what/where the nerves are in our bodies, and how they send messages to the brain.
Vocabulary words that were introduced were: nerves, sensitive, skin & texture.
