Week 6

Reminders:

· Please continue to work on the red/yellow/orange sight words with your child at home. I will test students on Mondays or Fridays each week and send new lists home in their backpack when your child has mastered a list.

· 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 then, 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.

·        In this past week's Tuesday folder I sent home a Scholastic Books order form and instructions on how to order books online. The order is due by October 3rd. There are a lot of fun Fall and Halloween books to choose from in this order.

• Our classroom library is in need of some help! We have quite a few books that have taken a trip to the "Book Hospital" and need to be fixed before returning to our book shelves. If you are willing (and able) to come fix our classroom books, please let me know.
• I also need one or two parent volunteers a week to help get the students set up on the laptops during our I-Station time which is Monday and Tuesday afternoons at 2:00pm. I will only need help during the first 15-20 minutes to get them logged in. If you are VIPS approved and available those days, please e-mail me.

 

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

Language Arts

• Letter Sounds: m, r, b, e
•  phonemic awareness: blending, segmenting, changing letters to make new words, rhyming words
• Sight Words: have, little, to  
• Number Writing Poem (#’s 1-5)

Handwriting: lowercase c, u, e, and words with letters we have already learned

• We will introduce our third part of Daily 5 which is “Word Work”. We will discuss and model correct and incorrect things to do during work on writing. Each day students will practice work on writing, read to self, and word work. We will continue to build our stamina as writers and readers.

Writing

Writing will be a continuation of last week’s agenda:

• Students will 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.
• Students will learn how to add more details to our story: add more words and add more to the pictures.

Math

·         The students will explore numbers and number relationships through 10.

o   How can ten frames help us show or see numbers?

·         The students will learn their telephone number and recognize that numbers have different uses.

o   What is a telephone number and what is it used for?

·         The students will increase their awareness of numbers and identify numbers in our world.

o   Can you find numbers in our school? What do the numbers tell us?

·         The students will have experience with the shapes: circles, triangles, and squares.

o   Why might the shape on the object matter?

·         Students will also begin differentiated math stations this week to review skills we have learned using hands on challenging activities.

 

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 continue to 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 discuss how our abilities in interests shape our identity.
• 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 introduced to the idea of living things. We will discuss what living things need, sort pictures of living and non – living things, and discuss why things are living.

Students will differentiate between living things. For example: Humans and plants are both living things, but what makes us different?