Week of September 19

The Resources for the week are: MONDAY~Music, TUESDAY~Art, THURSDAY~Art and FRIDAY~Computer Lab. Monday is PICTURE DAY and PROGRESS REPORTS are going home too! Order forms were not sent home yet for pictures, be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Please sign and return the bottom portion of the Progress Report. The detailed report is for you to keep. Friday is HAT DAY!! Please do not feel that you need to go out and buy a hat, you could make your child a hat to wear... be creative! Jamari will be bringing in Fun Friday snacks for the class. :)

MATH

We are focusing on varied configurations to 10. The groups may be linear, arrays, circular or scattered. We will review the amount of part of a group, along with the amount of the whole group. I will also be using the terms columns and rows.
This week we will also complete the Mid- Module Assessment whole group.  

 Reading and Science

 The students did great last week learning about Sense of Sight and Sense of Hearing. Make sure to ask your child what they learned about the sense and what the diagrams showed them. :) If they have trouble discussing the senses with you- refer back to last week's post for the stories.

This week we will get to the Sense of Smell (It didn't happen last week like I had hoped.) Sense of Taste, Sense of Touch and we will have a story about Ray Charles. We will discuss how he overcame his disability and used it as an opportunity to better himself. **I made each of the title's hot links, click on them to have access to the stories.

Vocabulary for the Senses and Ray Charles

Smell: molecules, mucus, nostrils, scents, smell receptors

Taste: congested, flavorful, pucker, saliva, taste buds

Touch: nerves, sensitive, skin, texture

Ray Charles: blind, disability, disease, opportunity, remarkable

Wednesday we do not have a Resource, so we have extra time for Science. We will review sense of sight and the diagram of the eye. Then we will visit a Sid the Science Kid sight game on PBS and make an entry in our journals about things the students see in the classroom.

Here is a Sid the Science Kid All My Senses video. Enjoy!  

In Saxon we will discuss letters h and t. We will discuss compound words, letter tiles and coding words.

Sight Words for the week are: three, four, it, go.

Writing

We will read the book I Like Me by Nancy Carlson and discuss how we will be STAR Writers. We will also discuss our favorite sense and draw a picture of something we love to do with it. Ex. Smell cookies baking. Touch fuzzy stuffed animals. Eat pepperoni pizza, etc.

Please remember we are still focusing on detailed characters and a setting. Do not force your child to write right now if they are not ready. I will work on getting them to tell a story that matches with their picture and then I will write a simple sentence for them. A few students have begun to label things in their pictures and that's perfect! 

Here is a picture of the 5 Star Writing poster.