Luck of the Irish

Our week in review:

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:-in

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

 Word Families: at, an, ap, ad, am, et, en, ed, it

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: do, all, there

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one ,two, three, four, nine, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come

If you need ideas to practice the words please take a look at the tab at the top of the page named popcorn words.

Reading
This week in reading we focused on characteristics of the characters in several St. Patrick's Day themed stories. We read Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato, The Luckiest Leprechaun, and the Night Before St. Patrick's Day. We discussed how we would catch a leprechaun and devised a plan to get his gold. We had many creative ideas. 

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Luck of the Irish to the tune of This Old Man. 

Leprechaun, Leprechaun
You play your tricks and then you run
to the rainbow's end
where you stash your pot of gold
there is fortune, I've been told!

Our weekly reader this week was all about spring. We made some self to text connections during the reading. We had heard many of the sounds already that were in the weekly reader, along with some of the sights the bumble bee saw.

Math

In math we practiced solving addition sentences by playing several different games. We continued solving math sentences in the stamping center this time with dice as the picture. We are practicing the four different strategies we have learned to solve an addition problem. These strategies are using our fingers, manipulative, drawing a picture, or using a number line.

Important Reminders

No School Friday March 25th

Book orders are due tonight March 18th (link on the side for ordering) 

Please return any unwanted Spring photos to school. Payments can be made online or through check for photos you plan on keeping. These were due last week, but we still have many missing packets.

Everything Spring

Phonics

This weeks word family was - it. We also looked at digraphs such as ch, wh, th, and sh. We made lists of words with these sounds and listened for them throughout our day.  

Popcorn Words

We learned: soon, went, come

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me, am,  did, not, can, is, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, no, the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, five, said, this, that, new

Reading

During our reading time this week we read the book Everything Spring by Jill Esbaum. The story introduced us to different signs of spring as well as events that take place in spring. We dug deep into the book to learn to the meanings of the words fawn, meadow and fuzzy. We also talked about spring weather this week. Often times in March it is said that the weather comes "in like a lion and out like a lamb." We discussed these different types of weather and made a chart. Then we used this chart to make our own class book. We titled our book "Lion or Lamb?" Inside we completed the sentence "I am like lion/lamb weather because___. 

Math

In math this week we are building upon the concepts of more than and fewer than. Practicing these are helping us with number order and eventually will lead us into more addition and subtraction problems. In our math centers we continued to review measurement and data through exploration of measuring tools like snap cubes, butterflies, and footballs. Then we used the information from our measurement to record our data.

Important Reminders:

March 15th- No School

April 29th- Children's Museum Field Trip

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