Resources for the
week are: Art (Mon), Media (Tues), P.E. (Wed) and Art (Thurs).
Thursday we are meeting up with our FCAT Buddies for Ice Cream!!
We will also be visiting Mrs. Davis' class, we get to hold the baby ducklings!
Friday there is no school. :) It is a Teacher Work Day.
BIRTHDAYS!!! The newest members of the 6 year old club are coming this week.
Jacob joins the club Thursday and Gabriel joins on Friday. :)
BIRTHDAYS!!! The newest members of the 6 year old club are coming this week.
Jacob joins the club Thursday and Gabriel joins on Friday. :)
Below is what we will be focusing on in class:
Reading:
We will be reading the book Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. We will use our schema and discuss all the different things hands can do before we begin reading the book~ some things that might be said are; help others, clap, give a high 5! We will review our reading strategies and discuss how the picture clues help us some, but we really need to use our sounds to read. :) It is the beginning of 4th quarter, so our skills are changing a little bit. We will
continue practicing phoneme deletion/
substitution. Then we will add vowel work (long and short sound), finding the medial sounds of words, blends (two letters that word together to make a sound) and opposites (ex. hot/cold, short/tall). Our Word Family is
the -ing
family, our blend is bl- and our new Sight Words are as, from, their, which.
Here is a quick video of our book. Along a link to the bl- blend powerpoint I made. :)
When choosing books to read at home this week, find books where your child has to use their reading strategies. This may mean choosing books that are a little trickier for them to read... I do not want the students to get discouraged and think they aren't readers, but I want them to have to apply their knowledge of sounds to read. Books written by Dr. Seuss are great for doing this! :) ~ Also, Hubbards Cupboard is a website that uses a lot of our sight words in their books. If you have trouble finding books to use, check out their website by clicking on the link here. :)
Writing: We are finishing up Report Writing on Zoo Animals. This week we will focus on Zebras. Then we will edit/ revise our work and make it PERFECT. (In my head I can see the students kissing their fingers, then spreading them apart and yelling out, "Perfect!!" haha We do it all the time in class.)
I will make a post of our research charts and some student writing... but for
now all you get is a little sneak peak of one of our research charts. :)
At home, discuss elephants, lions, giraffes and zebras with your child. Share the way each animal looks, the way it moves and the different things it eats. The class has done GREAT during all of our research sessions and you should have a really good discussion with them. They may even teach you a little something! :)
Science/Social Studies: We are beginning a new Unit on Plants and Animals. We will be discussing fiction and non-fiction texts and how they make the plants and animals act. Then we will discuss living and non-livings, we will make a chart that tells the things that living things need.
At home, ask your child what the differences are between living things and non-living things. Have them tell you what living things needs to survive. If they seem confused, watch the videos with them and discuss them while the videos are playing.
Math: We are beginning a new Topic on Addition. We have discussed addition before and the class did GREAT! I expect this topic to be a breeze. :) We will be combing groups to make sums up to ten and we will focus on vocabulary~ expression and equation. An expression is a statement that tells the amount in each group and has the mathematical sign, but does not have an equal sign or a sum~ 5+3. An equation has the groups, the mathematical sign and the sum~ 5+3=8.
At home, discuss the vocabulary with your child. How them a picture of two groups and ask them to write the expression that matches the picture. Then have them complete the problem and make it into an equation by adding the equal sign and the sum.
Ex. OOOO OO The expression would be 4+2. The equation would be 4+2=6.