Week 5

Reminders:

· Next Wednesday is early dismissal. The students will be dismissed at 12:15pm. There will be no after school activities on that day.

· Please continue to work on the red sight words with your child at home. I will test students on Mondays or Fridays each week and send new lists home when your child is ready.

· Remember, library day is Tuesday. Please have your child bring their library book back to school Tuesday morning. If your student’s book is not back on Tuesday, they will not be able to check out a new book.

· The poetry folder will be going home today. Have your child sing the color poems over the weekend and return the folder on Monday morning.

• We still need 26 of the following items to taste during our taste test. If you can send one of these items in please e-mail me letting me know. Thanks!

- Pretzels

- Lemon slices

- M&m’s

Here is a peak at what we will be focusing on this week:

Language Arts

• Letter Sounds and phonemic awareness: o,k,c,m,r
• Sight Words: me, the, red
• 5 senses song

Handwriting: lowercase g and d words with a,s,c,t,w and d, a, t, o, s

• We will introduce our second part of Daily 5 which is “Work on Writing”. We will discuss and model correct and incorrect things to do during work on writing. Each day students will practice work on writing and read to self and we will continue to build our stamina (our reading and writing muscles!)

Writing

• Students will begin continue building their writing stamina in Writers Workshop. This stamina is similar to reading stamina during Read to Self.
• Students will learn how to stretch out words and write the sounds you hear when trying to write words.
• Students will learn what to do when they are done with their writing. We say, “When you’re done, you’ve just begun”. Students can add more detail to their drawing or more words to their story.
• We will discuss using our heart map to get ideas for what to write about.

Math

·        The students will develop number sense and counting skills through an oral counting game.

o   Does it matter in what order we say the numbers when we count? Why or why not?

·        The students will practice comparing lengths and learn the words shorter and taller.

o   Why might we want to know which things are taller or shorter than we are? How can we use this information?

·        The students will reinforce counting and recognizing numerals 0-10.

o   Can you thing of other ways to show or act out the number ___?

·        The students will have experience with manipulating and combining shapes.

o   What do you do to find different ways to make the same shape?

 

IB-Who We Are

We continue the central idea of the first IB Unit “Who We Are”. The central idea is “Feelings, abilities, and interests shape humans identities”.

• We will begin continue presenting our "Me" dolls as they are turned in
• We will present our names and what they mean.
• We will focus on feelings and discuss how everyone has feelings but you might feel them at different times for different reasons. You may even feel more than one feeling at a time.
• We will read When Sophie Gets Angry, Very Very Angry and discuss the illustrator’s use of the color red to show anger. The students will draw their “angry self-portrait” and discuss something that makes them very very angry.
• We will play a partner game in which we find something we have in common and something we have different from a friend in our class.

Science

Students will be continue learning about our 5 senses: touch, taste, hear, sight, smell.

The students will learn a “5 Senses song” and we will a conduct and feeling and hearing experiment.