Finding Food in the Winter

 Today we learned about another reading Super Power:  slide your finger under the word and say the sounds you know slowly.  It is amazing to hear these kids use the sounds they know as they problem solve words.
KR took their first section of the NWEA assessment this morning.  KB will take their first NWEA assessment tomorrow at 8:10.

During our theme time the class continued to answer the question of how plants and animals help each other survive in the winter.  They all had a chance to go find their "buried nuts" hidden throughout the room.  We used our first and last initials to identify each bag, a great opportunity to start thinking about initials.  As the kids enjoyed their "nuts" they listened to a book detailing how deer and rabbits must eat twigs and bark when the snow is too deep to find seeds and leaves.  They all had a chance to pretend to be deer and pull the bark from twigs.  Everyone agreed they would rather gather and store nuts instead of eat twigs and bark all winter.