Week of November 28

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Break and is ready for a super week of school!! This week is going to be busy! Our resources for the week are: MONDAY- Art, TUESDAY- Art with Ms.Schmidt, WEDNESDAY- Art and THURSDAY- Music. On Friday we are having Boots Day. I can't wait to see what beautiful boots everyone has. :) Also, it is Picture Retake Day. If you would like to have your child's school picture taken again- please write me a note. Only those with a note sent in this week will have their pictures taken over. 

Also TiDarius will be joining the 6-Year-Old Club this week. And Leilani will be bringing Fun Friday snacks for the class. 

**Progress Reports going home WEDNESDAY, November 30. Please sign and return the bottom of the orange paper. The rest of the information is for you to keep.**

Diamon D Field Trip slips and money is due by December 9.

MATH

Well we are quickly learning all about measurement! We have spend our time comparing items to a cube stick. Figuring out if the items we compare our stick with are longer than or shorter than the cube stick. The students are doing great!! Towards the end of the week we will be comparing the weight of two objects.

Check out the Youtube Videos and discuss the items with your child.

READING

We are beginning our new Module on Farms. In this module we will learn all about the different animals on the farm. We will discuss the main topic of each story and the details that really support the main topic. We will also compare and contrast different animals, along with the female and male animals.  Our Stories and their vocabulary is listed below. Remember you can click on the title of the story and reread it to your child.  

Old MacDonald Has a Farm 

crops, harvest, pastures, shelter, tools

With a Moo, Moo Here

grazing, herd, produces

And a Cluck, Cluck There

collects, hatch, peck, perching

Here an Oink, There an Oink

littler, raise, valuable, wallow

On Wednesday's Early Release Day we will be discussing Respect for our Peers. It is the November Learning for Life lesson. The lesson reminds students to treat others the way they want to be treated. It also shows them the right way to react, if a person has forgotten their manners. Here is a catch respect song for everyone to enjoy.

SAXON & SIGHT WORDS

We will be reviewing lowercase letters and letter sounds. Along with finding out how many syllables are in words and what we are left with if we take off the beginning syllable. Ex. Party~ We omit the "par" and we are left with "tea."

Our sight words are look, long, will and that. Here is a slideshow to practice the sight words.

WRITING

Our Writing will be following along with the Farms Module in Reading. We will discuss the setting for a farm and the different things we see. Then we will discuss the animals that live on a farm. There will be a lot of modeled writing going on. This means the students will not have the pencils in their hands as much, however they will be working on stretching words so that we write the sounds they hear.

Here is a Youtube video to get the students excited about their farm writing!