Week 9

Reminders and News:

·      On Friday, I sent home the class T-shirts. Please make sure that you keep track of it from now until Field Day on October 31st  because this is the shirt we will wear (more details regarding this date will come as we get closer).

• 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 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 the Tuesday folder 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. Otherwise, they will not be able to check out a new book until the following Tuesday.

·         We will be using small pumpkins for science activities next week. 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!

·         We now have a Teaching Assistant who will be working in our room on Mondays-Fridays for a few hours a day (8-12). Her name is Ms. Sac. She has been a great help in the classroom so far! She will be helping students during work time as well as working with small groups of students while I am as well.

 

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

Language Arts

• -et word family. We will sing a song called, “Chet’s Pet”.
• Letter Sounds: v, f, z, q
•  phonemic awareness: un-blending words, blending words, rhyming words
• Sight Words: they, you, see, she
• Number Writing Poem (#’s 7-8)
• word family.
• We will Read Aloud “From Head to Toe” and discuss:
• Punctuation
• Sight words – I, am, a, can, you, my, and
• Spacing between words
• Patterning in stores
• Inflection of voice when asking a question, saying a sentence with an exclamation point 

Writing

• Labeling our Illustrations
• Telling stories with illustrations
• Drawing even hard-to-make ideas
• Using both pictures and words like famous authors

Math

·         Do you notice any patterns in the numbers 0-19? Students will practice recognizing and counting teen numbers.

·         Why is it useful to be able to represent sounds, actions, and other things with numbers? Students will reinforce oral counting and recognizing teen numbers through a movement activity.

·         Why or when might it be helpful to think of teen numbers as “10 and some more”? Are there other numbers you can think of in similar ways? Students will be introduced to the concept that ten numbers represent “10 and some more.”

·         What does it mean to estimate? (Make an educated or smart guess) Students will be introduced to the concept of estimation.

 

IB-Where We are in Place and Time

·         We will learn what makes up a family.

·         What types of homes/ communities do we live in?

·          How does that effect our identity?

·          Do people who live in different parts of the world, cities, and communities have the same needs/wants in a home?

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

  

Science

Students will observe and record properties of objects using vocabulary terms: size, mass, biggest, smallest, heavier, and lighter. We will use pumpkins to observe these properties.