More Centers

Johnathan and Shaniah working hard using the strategies they learned.

As we have told you in previous blog entries, we love working in centers! The center pictured above is a new center that Ms. Strum made for us. Ms. Strum made us some sample test questions. She glued them down in file folders and laminated them. Ms. Strum gave us overhead markers so that we could work through the sample test questions.

Bryson working hard on completing his sample test items.

We have been working on simple and compound sentences this week. We have been learning how to take simple sentences to form a compound sentence. Ms. Strum taught us when we combine the sentences, it is followed with a comma and a conjunction. Ms. Strum gave us 12 sets that include 2 simple sentences and a conjunction. We had to take the simple sentences and the conjunction to make a compound sentence.

Shamiah reading One Hundred Days Older.

This week we read stories about how other countries celebrate their birthdays. The two stories that we read were Birthday Joy and The Best Older Sister. The story Birthday Joy taught us how children in Mexico, Germany, and Israel celebrate their birthday. The Best Older Sister was a story about a girl whose parents recently had a baby boy. She felt left out due to her baby brother receiving all the attention. Her grandmother taught her that everyone in a family has a special place. Sunhi's grandmother made her a special gown for her to host her brother's birthday.

Derrick and Karlon reading One Hundred Days Old.

This week in centers we read the story One Hundred Days Old. This story teaches us the traditions on how the celebrate birthdays. As we read this story in centers, we learned that they celebrate the baby's 100th day birthday.As you can tell, we have learned how other countries celebrate their birthday.