My apologize for the tardiness of this update.
Reading
We are hearing, reading, and watching the Polar Express as I introduce the comprehension strategy of visualizing. Students are taught to make a movie in their head and use the adjectives of the book to create images in their head. This is a great strategy to practice when going to bed. Read aloud a story and have your child close their eyes and make a movie in their head.
Phonics
We are finishing up the rest of the sounds in the alphabet in preparation for spelling tests in the new year. This week we are briefly going over the sounds for Q, V, W, X, Y, and Z. I know this is a lot of sounds for a week but we are also reviewing sounds at the end of each day. The majority of students already know these sounds and those that don't will be given extra time with me to learn them. Please make sure your child is making the correct sounds for W and Y. These are two tricky sounds. The W sounds is the sound a ghost makes and the Y sound is phonetically /yee/.
Math
We are working through chapter five this week which focuses on size, order, and directional words (next to, behind, under, etc.)
Social Studies
We are discussing Winter holidays.
Writing
We are doing a brief author study on Jan Brett.
Science
Hibernation and migration (family projects)
Mr. E
Monday, December 14, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
December 7-11
Reading
We are reading an assortment of hibernation and migration books this week. We are continuing to make predictions before and during reading. The students are also learning about what makes a non-fiction book different from a fiction book. We are focusing on the structure of the text like headings, captions, table of contents, etc.
Math
We are learning the difficult math skill of finding how many more and less. The students can easily identify which has more given multiple towers or numbers. Deciphering how many MORE is the difficult part. New vocabulary is fewer, greater, and in all.
Writing
This week students will write about what they like/love about winter. Students are expected to start writing their own sentences with a capital and ending mark in the second quarter. Only a couple weeks in and many kids are already there!
Phonics
Letter Gg, Jj, Ee, and Uu are our letters we are learning this week. The reason we are doing four is to finish the alphabet by winter break. Students are continuing to blend and segment sounds.
Science
Hibernation and migration.
Social Studies
Cultures and holidays around the world.
Mr. E
We are reading an assortment of hibernation and migration books this week. We are continuing to make predictions before and during reading. The students are also learning about what makes a non-fiction book different from a fiction book. We are focusing on the structure of the text like headings, captions, table of contents, etc.
Math
We are learning the difficult math skill of finding how many more and less. The students can easily identify which has more given multiple towers or numbers. Deciphering how many MORE is the difficult part. New vocabulary is fewer, greater, and in all.
Writing
This week students will write about what they like/love about winter. Students are expected to start writing their own sentences with a capital and ending mark in the second quarter. Only a couple weeks in and many kids are already there!
Phonics
Letter Gg, Jj, Ee, and Uu are our letters we are learning this week. The reason we are doing four is to finish the alphabet by winter break. Students are continuing to blend and segment sounds.
Science
Hibernation and migration.
Social Studies
Cultures and holidays around the world.
Mr. E
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
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