Week of February 21

Our Resources for the week are: Tuesday:GUIDANCE, Wednesday:MUSIC and Friday:ART. Wednesday is an Early Release Day. Thursday morning we have a visit from the Zoo. 

Noelani is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class. :)

MATH

We have been working away at listening to Story Problems and adding up the groups to find the total. Please make sure to review your child's problem sets and remember to complete the Homework. Your child should figure out the parts of the equation by listening to the story. If you need to read the story problem again do it, I'd rather you do that and have them listen to find out the parts on their own.

On Thursday we begin subtraction! The students will hear me say "How many are left?" very often!! We begin subtraction with pictures and X-ing out the items taken away. Here is a fun youtube video get the students excited!

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS AND MORE

The letter we focus on this week is Y. We will only be discussing words that begin with y- yellow, yo-yo, yolk, yard, etc. We are also going to be drilling into changing/substituting beginning sounds. Make sure to practice with your child if it was highlighted on the Progress Report Paper.

Our Sight Words this week are: would, over, him & did. 

We are focusing on the _est word family and our blend is SL-. Below is information for both.

READING

We are reading Sing a Song of Sixpence and rereading King Midas and the Golden Touch. Then we will be take the Module Test.

Here is a link to Sing a Song of Sixpence.
**The module Test is only 6 questions. So once the test is done, we will review it and then begin making our CROWNS!I can't wait to show the pictures of hoe cute the "princes and princesses look!**

WRITING

Last week we wrote a letter to Mrs. Gordon (our P.E. Teacher). We were supposed to have P.E. but it got cancelled and the students were wondering about her. Here is a picture of the letter we wrote. (You'll notice I did the majority of the writing, but the students were involved by telling me the parts of the letter and what to write in the body.)

This week we will be writing a class letter and individual letters to the Cafeteria Manager, Mrs. Fipps. We will let her know what entree's we like, along with the fruits and vegetables. Then we will add in another sentence telling her an entree she could add. 

SCIENCE

We will be discussing near and far. The goal is for the students to know what the words mean and begin to have an understanding that the items far away are not small, but it's the distance that plays a trick on the eye and makes the items appear to be. We will take a walk outside and go right up to the flag pole so that the students can see just how tall it really is.

Here is a silly Sesame Street video to enjoy.