This week we read the story, Flower Garden.  We practiced, "turn to your partner".  To use this strategy, students have to look and listen to their partner and take turns discussing. The vocabulary words we practiced from this story were pedestrian, passenger, eager, and assortment.  The centers the students worked at this week were read to self, listen to reading, and word work.  In Jolly Phonics we learned the sounds for the letters e & h and used all of the letter sounds we learned so far to make words.  Our new popcorn word was, in.  In our Michael Heggerty Phonemic Awareness program, students are reviewing letter names and sounds.  They are also listening to words and deciding if they rhyme or not, as well as beginning sounds of words.  The letters we focused on for handwriting were the "frog jump capitals" D & P.  Our math activities this week have focused on counting, number recognition and number order.