We have been working on our sight words quite a bit lately. 

"Sight words are words that should be memorized to help a child learn to read and write. Learning sight words allows a child to recognize these words at a glance — on sight — without needing to break the words down into their individual letters and is the way strong readers recognize most words. Knowing common, or high frequency, words by sight makes reading easier and faster, because the reader does not need to stop to try and sound out each individual word, letter by letter." (sightwords.com)

At home, if you are able, keep a look out for these words in daily life and point them out. While reading, playing games etc...

Right now our list of sight words includes:

• the
• and
• to
• it
• is
• can
• this

We did lots of measuring today!

We made a balance scale out of a coat hanger. 

Inside the blue bag was a mystery item!

We had to figure out what was in the bag comparing its weight to the other items that we put in the pink bag. In this picture - the blue bag is heavier than the pink bag.

Here were the items were were comparing by weight. We discovered the rock was the heaviest - it pulled the hanger down the most. The pom pom was the lightest.

Later we used another balance scale for exploration.