Resources for the
week are: Music (Tues), Art (Thurs) and Music (Fri).
Wednesday is an Early Release Day. Lunch will be at 9:40.
Friday is Character T-Shirt Day. :)
(I will not be at school on Tuesday, but no worries... Ms.Godbold will be there. I am taking a workshop on Data Driven Center Rotations. :) I hope to make my centers better then every before!)
Below is what we will be focusing on in class:
**Testing of the Third Quarter Skills will be done all week. Progress Reports
go home next Monday, February 24.**
Reading:
We will be reading books on Presidents, specifically George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. :) We will also be making pictures for each one. We will continue practicing rhyming, segmenting words for
sounds and for syllables, phoneme deletion/
substitution and ending sounds of words. Our Word Family is the -all
family and our new Sight Words are do, been, or, your.
When choosing books to read at home this week, look for books about Presidents. :) Discuss the different things that made him a great president and how many terms he served. Discuss if any monuments have been made for him. Then ask them what they found interesting about the president.
Here is a Youtube Video that I will be showing in the classroom.
Writing:Response to Literature- We took a little break away from the Eric Carle books, but it is time to return to them. The students will be editing and revising their work. They will be making sure any sight words that are used are spelled correctly. They will be making sure that unknown words are stretched and that spaces separate each word. Finally they will make sure to end the sentences with correct punctuation.
At home have your child write a sentence or two, then ask them to edit their work. Sometimes the students don't notice their mistakes, so bring it to their attention. Also, if there are any letter reversals discuss them too. (Backwards letters don't affect their writing piece grade, but it makes it difficult for them to read their pieces to me.)
I have used this video in class before, but I think now it'll have more of an impact on the students.
I imagine hearing them remind themselves about capital letters, spaces and punctuation. :)
Science/Social Studies: Due to testing this week, we will not be spending a lot of time on Science... But I will take time to review the daytime Sky and nighttime sky for our upcoming Science test.
At home, review what items that we can see in the daytime and nighttime sky.
Math: We are finishing up our Topic on Shapes. We will review 2D shapes (square, rectangle, triangle, circle) and discuss 3D shapes (sphere, rectangular prism, cube, cylinder and cone). We will discuss the properties of each shape (ex. cylinder~ It is flat at the top and bottom and round on the side.) We will also discuss the face of each 3D shape, that is the flat surface of the shape.
At home review 2D shapes with your child and then focus on 3D shapes and having them find real world objects for each 3D shape mentioned above.
**In the Learn About Solid Shapes video below they discuss a cuboid, please
note that on our test it is referred to as a rectangular prism.**