Week of April 21

 

I have a jam packed 4 day week!! :) Be ready because it's going to go by quick! We have Resources on Monday: P.E., Tuesday: GUIDANCE, and Wednesday: MUSIC. We will also be making Flamingo's for our May Bulletin Board on Thursday. And during Recess some students will be decorating their International Cultural Day t-shirt. (if that doesn't sound familiar to you, please check back on past blog posts.)

Also, I am finishing up Progress Report Testing and plan on sending home the checklists this week, so that you can review the items your child did not Master.

I almost forgot my reminder... THIS WEEK WILL BE THE LAST WEEK OF HOME LEARNING PACKETS!! 

MATH

We will be reviewing i-Ready lessons the class had trouble with. On my observation it was: Subtraction using pictures and number lines. Counting forward and backwards by 1's from any given number. Adding 2-digit numbers. 

Our lessons will focus on counting forward and backwards from any given number. Then using an abacus and a 100's Chart to count and focus on the numbers in a given column. For example the last column: 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. The first column: 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, etc. The sixth column: 6, 16, 26, 36, 46, etc.

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, BLENDS & MORE!

In Saxon we are focusing on the combination qu and coding it with an arc. We are also reviewing sounds to write CVC and CVCe words, Along with reading the Fluency Readers.

We have two sight words this week: good & than.

Our blend is PR-. Have your child start thinking of words that have it at the beginning. Check out the slideshow below for some practice.

Our word family is -ook. As in look. Have your child think of words that belong in the family. Make sure they come up with a few words that have a blend before the family. :) Here is Youtube video to give some ideas!

We have focused on the long and short vowels in isolation. Now it is time to combine them and figure out the vowel in each word, along with whether it is long or short.

READING

We will be reviewing i-Ready lessons the class had trouble with. On my observation it was: changing the beginning and ending sounds to make a word that matches a given picture. Rhyming with pictures~ finding the two that go together. Then listening and reading comprehension questions!! Sometimes they read the story to the students and other times the students need to read the stories to themselves. 

This is our last week of Eric Carle. It has been so much reading colorful and exciting books!! I have noticed a lot of improvement retelling stories with the events in order. Not to mention the students have been amazing at figuring out the unknown words/ vocabulary in the stories. :) Well, our last book is The Foolish Tortoise. We will discuss the events that happen after he gets out of his shell. Then we will focus on the vocabulary that Eric Carle used to help make his story come alive!

WRITING

Now... I can't say  much about Writing to all of you. Because it's going to be a big surprise!! We are working on our Kindergarten Memory Books. It's a lengthy process... so plan on seeing these words in the next few weekly blog posts. But I promise, it will totally be worth it!

SCIENCE

We are working in our Science Books on pages that we never got to this year due to days off or schedule conflicts throughout the day. The students are loving the review of Science information. They have retained information that we learned back in August and are still able to apply it correctly. Very proud!!