Gung hay fat choy! or Have a prosperous New Year. Today we learned a little about Chinese New Year and the country of China. Your child should have a small book that we made that explains just the basics of Chinese New Year, China and the phases of the moon. I hope they share it with you.
Next, we worked on our visual thinking skills. Max the Magician teaches visual skills. He looks for visual clues that will lead us to the solution. So, today we did four puzzles. Two we did together using the overhead and helped each other. Then I gave the children visual subtraction problems. They did a fabulous job. Next, I gave them a picture of Max that has been overlaid with a numbered grid. Their job was to redraw Max using the grid as their guide. This is a technique that many artists use when painting or drawing from another source such as a photograph. Based on the work I saw today, we have many artists in first grade.
Last, we worked on our retelling of The Lost Button, a Frog and Toad story. The children read the story with a partner and then had to retell the story to their partner using buttons to guide their storytelling.
It as a wonderful day of learning.
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