Friday, December 4, 2015

My Family Tree

Here is our week in review

Phonics
Our sounds of the week: /w/ and /v/
Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, /u/, /l/, /f/, /b/, /j/, /ai/,/oa/ /ie/ /ee/ and /or/

Popcorn Words
We learned: little, and
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

Reading
During our reading time we read the book Me and My Family Tree. We made predictions before the story to guess what a family tree is. Among some of the guesses was that a family tree is a tree where your family has a party and it is a tree where people live. After reading the story though we learned that it was just like a map, but instead of showing us where we live it shows everyone in our family. Some of us were even able to describe our own family trees. To go along with our story we made a Family Book. Inside we wrote/drew pictures of our family, where we live, our favorite things to eat with our families as well as our favorite things to do with our families.

Math
In math this week we have continued to study how numbers are put together and taken apart. We have been using a whole, part/part mat to show our work while figuring out the story problems. This practice will help us when we begin to do addition and subtraction. Some of us are already picking up on this as well. We have been working with patterns in counting such as counting by 1's and now counting by 10's. Counting by 10's is tricky for some of us so continue to practice. We searched for missing numbers in a number line, raced to the finish by identifying teen numbers, stamping teen numbers and completing puzzles.

Important Reminders
Scholastic book orders are due tonight December 4th- If these will be used as gifts please let me know and we will send them home in a large envelope so your child does not see them.

December 15th Half Day

December 18th- Holiday Party

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Friday, November 20, 2015

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

Here is our week in review
Phonics
Our sounds of the week: /ee/ and /or/
Sounds we know: /s/, /a/, /t/,  /i/ /p/, /n/, /c/ , /k/, /e/, /h/, /r/, /d/, /o/, /u/, /l/, /f/, /b/, /j/, /ai/,/oa/ and /ie/

Popcorn Words
We learned: too, ran
Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me, am,  did, not, can, is, but, to

Reading
During our reading time we read the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving. We worked on our story seqencing by reading this story a few times and then using pictures to put the events in order. We looked at the words Thanksgiving, hooves, and riverbank during our vocabulary word work.

Our Weekly Reader was all about the pilgrim this week. We compared pilgrims to us today.


Math
In math this week we were working on putting numbers together and taking them apart. We practiced counting numbers 11-20. We will continue to practice these numbers as they are very tricky for the students because their names do not follow a pattern. The students should be able to verbally count to 50 now! We work on this everyday during calendar time. Today marked our 59th day of school.

Important Reminders


Scholastic book orders are due December 4th- If these will be used as gifts please let me know and we will send them home in a large envelope so your child does not see them.


November 24th- Grandparents Day

No school November 25th, 26th, and 27th

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