Resources for the week are: Art (Tues), P.E. (Wed) and Music (Thurs).
Tuesday is Make-Up Picture Day. (Write me a note if your child is going to be retaking their picture, I've only received two notes thus far...)
Wednesday we pack our "suitcases" for our trips around the world. :) Thursday we fly to Egypt and learn about Ramadan. Then on Friday we fly to Israel and learn about Hanukkah. Below is what we will be focusing on in class:
Reading: On Tuesday and Wednesday we are sequencing events in the story Mooseltoe. I will also be questioning events using the words before and after. (Ex. what events happened before Moose was hiding in the corner?) Plus we will be looking at all the Moose that come in! :) The Sight Words for this week are: more, all, look, because. We will continue practicing rhyming, blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and beginning sounds of words. When choosing books to read with your child this week, ask questions like the one mentioned above: What event happened before _____? or What event happened after ______? Also, ask your child what country we flew to and what they learned about the country and the holiday they celebrate. :)
Writing: We are going back to Narrative Writing (I am very excited!! And I bet a lot of you parents are too. haha) We are starting out simple by story mapping topics (we will use the bubble map). The topic we will focus on this week is Christmas. We will branch out the topic into four areas. The areas could include: food, toys, decorations, clothing, etc. We will also be using our sounds to label everything on the story map.
At home you will want to give your child a topic and ask them the different ways to branch out from the topic. Topics could include: Zoo, The Beach, Disney World, etc. Below is a quick example I did for Chuck E Cheese.
Science/Social Studies: We are ahead of schedule. :) Because of the short week and three resources, we will be reviewing movements and making Interactive Journal entries.
Math: We are continuing the chapter on Decomposing Numbers. The worksheets we will be completing in class have us writing the equations for numbers 4-10. Because of all the word we did before Thanksgiving matching the equations to the pictures... I think this will be a simple task. :)
At home, give your child a number and ask the different ways they could make the number. Focus on using numbers 4-10.
We are going to start decomposing numbers in this format during Calendar Time.
***Homework is changing! Be on the look out Wednesday.***