Resources for this week
are: P.E. (Mon), Music (Tues), Art (Wed) and Art (Fri). Monday Report Cards go home. :) (Make sure to sign the slip and return it in the envelope. Your child will receive a FREE book, Flat Stanley Goes Camping. Wednesday is an Early Release Day. If you plan on coming to school to each lunch with your child, we eat at 9:40 on ERD days. Friday is Boots Day!! Can't wait to see all the different kinds of boots the students wear. :)
Below is what we will be focusing on in class:
Reading:
We will be discussing different Types of Literature: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sing Along Texts, Nursery Rhymes Magazines, Poetry, etc. We will be reading the following works: Stellaluna, BATS, Various poems from the book Little Poems that Roar, various magazines from Scholastic and the Nursery Rhymes Five Little Ducks Went Out One Day & Five Little Speckled Frogs.
The Sight Words for this week are: up, my, so, be.
We will continue practicing rhyming,
blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and beginning sounds of words. Each of
these items is done for about two minutes. Practice phoneme deletion. Here is the script for you to follow:
Parent: "Say the word ________."
Child: "_________"
P: "Now say the word _________ without saying /___/."
C: _________ (they will say the word without the beginning sound.)
Ex. P: "Say the word leg."
C: "leg."
P: "Now say the word leg without saying /l/."
C: "egg."
Here are words for you to use. We have used these examples in class.
word: leg = egg, bed= Ed, hat= at, fall= all, pod= odd, sit= it, jump= ump.
When choosing books to read with your child this week, find different types of literature. Inform your child of the type you are reading. After reading ask them if they liked this type and to explain why or why not. Also ask them what type it was (This is a CGA question :) I believe this is how it went...Was this a book, song or Nursery Rhyme? )
Enjoy the video's of the Nursery Rhymes:
Writing:
We will continue Informational/ Procedural. We will be reviewing the topics
we are an expert on and writing them down on our Topic Chart. We will be sharing the steps by using the transition
words: First, Next, Then, Last and Finally. This week we will be finishing the steps for 'Going on a Slide.' During Independent Writing, your child will be writing the steps for a Topic of their choice. They will not be allowed to choose the topic of 'Going on a Slide.' The students will choose to either draw a quick sketch at the end of every step or to not draw a picture. I leave the choice up to them.
At home you will want to focus on the steps for a topic. (Some easy topics are: making a bowl of cereal, making an ice cream cone, getting in the car.) Write the steps with your child. (This is a lot of writing and the children get tired quick!)
Science/Social Studies:
We will continue discussing Matter: sorting items by their properties and changing the materials shape. When changing the shape of materials, we will use paper and playdough. Some of the ways we change shape are: cutting, bending, folding, crumbling.
At home, present your child
with a sheet of paper and ask how they can change the material. Allow them to change it the way they said. Then ask will if go back to its original shape and have them explain why or why not.
Here
is a fun little video to grab their attention about changing materials. :)
Math: We will continue working with the vocabulary equal and more, plus we will be discussing fewer. The class did a good job adding one more to a group. We will discuss adding two more. :) We will compare groups and tell whether they are equal (same as each other) or which group has more and which has fewer.
At
home, work with your child on the 'One More and Two More' concept. Then give them two groups and ask which has more, which has fewer. Make them explain their answer to you. (Ex. "This group have five and that group only has 2. So that group has more and this one has fewer." )
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