Special Winter Week
To help make our last week before the Winter Break special, we will be doing some themed days to guide our learning.Monday (12/17): Snow Day - Learn and read about snow, play in the snow and make projects with snow!
Tuesday (12/18): Grinch Day - Wear green or grinchy attire!
Wednesday (12/19): Gingerbread Day - Gingerbread Playdough: See sign up genius to donate items for the playdough and/or to volunteer
Thursday (12/20): Holiday Celebration - Wear festive attire- green, red, gold, silver, etc. The party is on 10:30-11:15 AM. If you are able to volunteer for this event, please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and receive directions for the station you signed up for. Also, please plan on staying about 15 minutes after to help clean up. **All volunteers must have a current background check form on file.** Thank you so much in advance!"
Curriculum
Reading:This week, the students have been learning about blends and how to decode words with blends (bl-, cl-, sc-, sn-, fr-, cr-, etc). They've also learned not to read too fast or too slow, but to read at a good pace so that they can understand their reading. Finally, they've learned to back up and reread if they find that they are not understanding their reading. Next week, we will get to do reading related to our themed days (snow, the Grinch, and gingerbread men). We will also continue to practice decoding words with blends.
Book Baggies:
Many students forgot their book baggies today. Please help them remember them next week Friday. I would like them to have an opportunity to read different books.
Writing:
As writers, we took a short break from How to...books to work on another book this week. Next week in our festive week, we will practice writing how to's about making playdough and snowmen.
Math:
As mathematicians this week, we learned several different strategies to help us when solving addition and subtraction problems within 20. The students learned to use friendly numbers and helper facts to help them solve harder problems. We will continue to work on adding and subtracting within 20 as well as building our fluency within 10. The students have been loving practicing facts with flashcards!
IXL Skills - Use these activities as you wish to help your child with the skills we will be working on throughout this first trimester.
Science/Social Studies:
In science this week, we had an opportunity to explore sound more in a reading and in an experiment. The students were given a cup, rubber band and tongue depressor. They did an amazing job of exploring and finding ways to make sound with these materials. They are really starting to understand that sound comes from vibrations, that it travels in waves, it can travel through different types of matter, that it can be loud or soft (volume), or high or low (pitch). These last two, volume and pitch, we sometimes get confused on!
Purposeful Play
Please see the Purposeful Play tab on the blog to learn more about our weekly Play Time and donation items we could use for it!
Homework
- Read every night (you can read with your child, listen to them read or read to them - all of it helps). Then talk about the book - who are the characters, what happened, why did it happen, make connections, what's the main idea, why did the author write the book, how did the author give you information, what features did the author use to help you as a reader
- Work on a math skill
- counting forwards and backwards within 120 (and skip counting)
- adding and subtracting to 20 - play a board game for this
- telling time (What are the hands on the clock? How is a clock set up?)
- identify and count coins
- measuring - length and volume - have your child cook with you to practice this
- talk about shapes - 2D and 3D - find items around your house, etc.)
Specials Schedule
Monday: P.E. (Wear tennis shoes)Tuesday: Art (Bring an Art shirt labeled with your child's name)
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media/Library
Friday: Rotates (See the back of your child's OWL folder (everyday folder) for a schedule.)
Important Dates
December 20: Holiday Celebration (see above)
December 24-January 6: No School - Winter Break
January 7: School Resumes
January 21: No School - MLK Day
January 31: Multicultural Night (6:00-8:00pm)
January 7: School Resumes
January 21: No School - MLK Day
January 31: Multicultural Night (6:00-8:00pm)
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