Last week we learned a new strategy in reading called, "turn to your partner".  The students were able to practice this strategy through the story, Cat's Colors.  The new vocabulary words we learned from this story were: soar, tangled, snooze, and drowsy.  The popcorn word we focused on this week was, it.  In Jolly Phonics we learned the sounds/actions for the letters n, and c,k.  We also made words with letter sounds we have learned already (s,a,t,i,p,n,c,k).  The upper case letters we worked on in handwriting were: F, E.  These are two of the "frog jump" capitals because when we make these letters, we start at the top, make a big line down, and then frog jump back to the starting point to finish the letter.  The students worked in centers during reading time.  They listened to a story at the listening center, worked on The Imagination Station computer reading program, and read to themselves.  They are doing so well learning the daily 5 routines and working at them independently!  In math we are working on counting and number recognition.  Students are counting forward (from 1 and random numbers) and backward to one.  We are putting numbers in order and counting objects.  We are also matching numbers to sets of objects.  The students have enjoyed working in partners and small groups to complete math activities.