We are moving right through Unit 3 of Reading
Street! Our Amazing Words for this week are: celebration, sprinted,
barn, blacksmith, arch, and soldier. This week, we will be reading,
“George Washington Visits”. This story correlates very well
with our question of the week: How is life today different from life hundreds
of years ago? The children will also be introduced to the concept of
cause and effect as well this week. However, we will continue to
review the setting, plot, and characters of our stories!
This week, we will be introducing the letters Dd and Kk
and their associated sounds. Both Dd and Kk are short, quick sounds;
therefore, please do not allow your children to add the “uh” sound. This
can create difficulties for them when they segment words. We will
also be introducing two new sight words: “see” and “look”!
We are planning to continue our work with our other sight
words this week and using them to create awesome sentences! Students
will revisit the basic elements of writing sentences this week during both our
whole group learning time and our center time. Students should be
able to show you how they start a sentence with a capital letter, use two
finger spacing between words, and end their sentence with a punctuation
mark. Please continue to encourage your child to be writing at home
on their days off. We have really enjoyed having the children share
their journal entries!
Centers will remain the same this week!
-Library
Center : Students will be
identifying the title, the characters in the story, and their favorite part of
the story.
-Writing
Center : Students will be
answering a question by creating a sentence and illustrating their work.
-Math
Center : Students will be
exploring, comparing/contrasting, sorting, and discussing the shape’s
properties. (2-D and 3-D)
-Art
Center : Students will be
creating a snowman and labeling all of the associated parts.
In math, we will be revisiting the concept of tens
frames. Having students think about numbers using frames of 10 can
be very helpful and is a great way to establish number sense and mental math
skills. It also provides both a concrete and visual understanding of
the base-ten number system. Last week, we explored the numbers 11
and 12. This week, we will be exploring 13 and 14. Please
continue to work with your child on these concepts at home, as well as
counting. Students need to be able to count to 50 by the end of the
2nd quarter and 100 by the end of the year!!
Also, please remember that students will have their DIBELS
assessments this week. They will be assessed on letter naming, nonsense
words, phoneme segmentation, and beginning sounds. Their scores should
come home in 1-2 weeks.
We hope that you have had a fantastic weekend.
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