Week of Feb 24

We are finishing off the month by discussing a few famous African Americans in History to celebrate Black History Month. Make sure to ask your child who we discussed on Friday and ask what they learned. :) We have resources on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday is an Early Release Day.

Also, if you have not signed and returned your child's Progress Report... please do so now. We want to make sure everyone is aware of their child's current grades. On Friday Kenza is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the class. 

SKILLS

We were able to take back a little bit of time from Reading Mastery. :) (We are soooo happy!) So we are able to focus on WORD FAMILIES! This week we are focused on "A" guided word families.

Please note: we are using them as the gateway to mastery for producing rhyming words. Along with adding/ substituting the beginning sound to make a new word. We know it'll be great!! 

Our Sight Words for the week are: now, big, are & their.

READING
We are continuing to pull information about of passages that support a topic. We are discussing various animals and reviewing animals that were taught prior to my return.
Please make sure to review that papers that go home. The answers need to have a simple picture and words. Many of the students are forgetting their words and the papers are completed together whole group.

WRITING
If time is found, we will be writing sentences for the animals we discuss in Reading.

MATH
We will be starting a new unit this week: Addition! This unit builds off what we were learning in our previous unit. Practice combinations of numbers 3-10 with your child so that addition comes more naturally to them! We will be discussing how addition is just combining two sets of objects. Some of the addition strategies we will be working on include "counting on", "adding with fingers", and "using a number path". We'll be using the following video in class as a fun way to start adding!
Students can also watch at home and practice more.


SCIENCE
This week we will be discussing the different sizes of objects and observing that things can be big or small as seen from Earth.