This week, we will continue our work with the letter Ii. The children did very well with the short Ii sound last week and we are looking forward to creating more words to blend with the letters we have learned. Our sight words/popcorn words will remain the same this week, “for” and “he”. Please practice these words, and previously learned sight words/popcorn words, with your children at home! It should take them no more than 3 seconds to identify the words.
We will be extending our work with segmentation this week and continuing to bridge this into our writing. Last week, we saw some amazing writing during our writing time. The students are beginning to segment the words and write the sounds that they hear. Please remember when you are looking at their work, it is developmentally appropriate for children to only hear the first and/or last sound of a word. Some children may be able to hear and write the middle sound too, but remember this is the last sound the children hear!
In math we will begin Chapter 5. Chapter 5 homework is being sent home on Tuesday and Wednesday. The homework should not be overwhelming for the children and is suppose to review what is happening in class in a way they can complete independently. This chapter delves into addition. We will work with the addition symbol and the equals sign. Our program also teaches the number sentence to look like the following: 2 + 3 = 5 and 5 = 3 + 2. I think the children will be successful with addition. One great way to practice is with pennies. As a class, we will also continue counting to 50. Counting will be done daily, as children need to be able to count to 50 by the end of the second quarter. Please encourage your child to count at home! The more practice they have, the better counters they will become!
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