Week of February 13

 

This is going to be a fantastic week!! We have Valentine's Day on Tuesday and our Zoo Field Trip on Friday. Plus we have the Book Fair Monday, a lesson with Mrs.Noah Thomas on Wednesday and a bunch of Resources:  Tuesday~ Art, Wednesday~ Art, and Thursday~ P.E.

Friday's Spirit Day is a school shirt or a blue shirt. This will help the Chaperones and I at the Zoo on Friday. Make sure your child wears sneakers and if they would like to bring sunglasses they may, however they will be responsible for them. I will have a little snack for the students to eat before we leave the Zoo. Then Sophia will pass our her Fun Friday Snacks when we return to school. 

ZOO INFORMATION!! 
Please do not give your child spending money. We will not be buying extra food items, going on any of the added Zoo activities (ex. train, carousel, etc.) nor will there be time to visit the Gift Shop. Please explain to your child we will see as many of the animals as possible, but we may not get a chance to see all of them. And the last most important thing: DO NOT RUN! The students are going to get excited and I want them to be excited, however I do not want them to run away from me or any of the Chaperones.

MATH

I have really enjoyed watching the students knowledge grow with number bonds and seeing them write equations just blows my mind! We're transitioning into story problems and we will slowly begin to phase out the number bonds, now that they understand the parts to whole concept. 

We will focus on finding and using the amounts in a story problem to solve an equation. We will listen to the words to figure out that they are addition story problems wanting us to find a total amount. (I point this out because subtraction will be here soon!)

Ex. There are 5 dogs and 1 puppy. How many animals are there all together?

The students will continue to practice writing equations two different ways.

Ex. to the story problem above: 5+1=6 and 6=5+1.

Here is a fun Pirate Addition Video from Youtube to capture the students attention!

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS AND MORE!

We are continuing to figure out words that have a vowel of e in the middle. We will be word building with our letter tiles and practicing changing the beginning sound to make a new word. 

Sight Words: where, when, there & out. Visit the sight word post from last week and review all of the words with your child. :)

Here is a sight word video that I posted a long time ago, but felt like it was a good one to view again and practice with. 

Our word family for this week is the -ell family and our blend is the sh- sound. Below are the items we will be using in class for practice on them.

READING

This week we will be watching a King Midas book/video on Youtube titled: Max and Ruby's Midas. You can check it out below.

On Tuesday we will take a break from King and Queen books to focus on Valentine's Books. I have so many great ones in my personal library, so I haven't quite decided which ones I'm going to read. :)

Wednesday and Thursday we will read Cinderella. I have picked a version from ReadingAtoZ. I will be copying it and sending it home so that you can read it to  your child for additional practice. 

The standards we will be focusing on this week are retelling/ sequencing, figuring out the meaning of unknown words and ask/answer questions. 

WRITING

We are finishing up Opinion Writing and will begin Letter Writing. The students will learn the layout for writing a letter. We will discuss different greeting and closings, along with different things you can write in the body of the letter.   Below is a fast, yet catchy song that repeats the layout for writing a letter.

SCIENCE

We have a lot to do this week, but I am determined to find some time for Science so we can discuss Gravity again. :) I loved watching the class stare in amazement at the video's from the Space Station. They were amazed with the different things the astronauts had to do because they didn't have gravity there.