Today Gracyn and I realized we are on the 91 day of school! I introduced her to the sight words this week "than, into, what, help, and find." Today we focused on the sight word "into." She traced the word, wrote the word, and used it in a sentence. Gracyn read her weekly poem about snow falling and drew a picture of catching snow on her tongue. In writing she wrote "The penguin is cute." In her writing folder. I introduced Gracyn to the "wh" blend and we identified different words that begin with the "wh" sound. In reading, we are focusing on the level D book, "Welcome back Butterflies." We first did a picture walk through the book. Next we wrote challenging words in the story on post it notes. It was then Gracyn's turn to read the story. I love how well she did the first time reading the story. She used various techniques to sound out words she didn't know! In science we began or unit on penguins. Today we did a KWL chart. I wrote down things she already knew about penguins and what she hopes to learn.