Week 8

Reminders:

·         It was great seeing everyone at the international Festival!

·         Please have your child read/sing the poems in the poetry folder this weekend and return the folder on Monday morning.

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

·         Remember, library day is Friday. Please have your child bring their library book back to school Friday morning. Otherwise, they will not be able to check out a new book until the following Friday.

·         We will be using small pumpkins for science activities over the next few weeks. If your student hasn’t brought in a pumpkin yet, please do so this week.

·         The Family Customs and Traditions homework that went home in last week’s Tuesday folder is due no later than October 21^st. Feel free to send them before that if they are finished, though! If you do not have a photograph of your family celebrating the tradition or custom, you can print a similar one from the internet or draw your own. The pictures really help the students visualize and understand the custom/tradition. Thanks!

 

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

Language Arts

• Letter Sounds: u, w, v, x
•  phonemic awareness: blending, segmenting, changing letters to make new words, rhyming words
• Sight Words: so, white, brown, you
• Number Writing Poem (#’s 4-5)
• op word family. The song we will sing is called, “Drip Drop, Slip Slop”. We will discuss the sound o makes when it is in the middle of a cvc word (consonant vowel consonant).

Handwriting: lowercase e, u, magic c letters, words with i,  

• We will introduce our fifth part of Daily 5 which is “Listen to Reading” We will discuss and model correct and incorrect things to do during “Listen to Reading” which includes using an IPad, IPod, or computer to listen to books read aloud. This helps students recognize fluent reading and how it should sound. Each day students will continue practice work on writing, read to self, word work, and read to someone. We will continue to build our stamina as writers and readers.
• We will read “Pumpkin, Pumpkin” and use the reading strategy “Eagle Eye” which we use pictures to help us read unknown words.

Writing

Writing will be a continuation of last week’s agenda as well as new topics:

• 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.
• Students will learn how to add more details to our story: add more words and add more to the pictures.
• Labeling our Illustrations
• Telling stories with illustrations

Math

·         The students will develop oral counting skills through movement activities. What are some helpful counting tools? How are they helpful?

·         The students will lay groundwork for number writing through kinesthetic and tactile stroke-formation activities.  Why do numbers have to be written a certain way?

·         The students will practice coin recognition using a game. What are the names of the coins? What do you to help you count (accurately)? Why is this important?

·         The students will reinforce the meaning of numbers by constructing a class number board.  What do you notice about the pattern board? Do you see patterns? What other patterns have you noticed in numbers?

 

IB-Where We are in Place and Time

·         We will dissect our central idea:

·         We will discuss the American tradition of celebrating Columbus Day. We will learn about Columbus by watching a video about him and his travels.

·         We will begin to present our family cultures and traditions homework and learn about each other’s families, cultures, and traditions.

·         We will read Ruby’s Wish and discuss the traditions Ruby has with her family and how those may be similar or different to our own.

Science

Students will learn the parts of a pumpkin. Students will be scientists and use their 5 senses to make observations about the pumpkin. We will then cut the pumpkin open, observe, and discuss the function of the different parts. We will also learn that pumpkins are living things because they grow and have seeds.

Students will understand that pumpkins are living things and we will discuss their needs.

Students will understand the life cycle of a pumpkin, how a pumpkin grows, and how a pumpkin resembles its’ parent. Students will sequence a pumpkin’s lifecycle.