Our week in review

Here is our week in review

Phonics

Our sounds of the week: /qu/ and /ou/

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/ /or/, /w/, /v/, /y/, /x/, /ch/ and /sh/, /ng/, and /th/

Popcorn Words

We learned: our, here, out

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

Reading

During our reading time we read two books and then compared them. The first story was a nonfiction book called Winter Wonderland by Jill Esbaum. This book gave us facts about winter holidays, weather,and activities. While reading this book we learned the vocab words astounds hinge vanish, and gentle. The second story we read was called Snow by Cynthia Rylant. This story was a fiction story about a town on a snowy day. We compared fiction and non fiction story elements using these two books.

As an art project we made a picture of children catching snowflakes on their tongues. Did you know the snowflakes VANISH when they touch our tongues? We learned that they melted on our tongue as if they had disappeared.

Our weekly reader reviewed fiction and non fiction stories with us. Then we read our non fiction weekly reader about animals in the snow. We discussed where in the library we would check out books like Bearenstein Bears and Pete the Cat and books about Lizards, Cats, and other animals.

Math

In math this week we continued learning about subtraction. We focused on writing subtraction sentences and using simple story problems to solve subtraction stories. We learned the word difference and how it relates to the answer of a subtraction problem. We also learned about the equal sign. We know that subtraction sentences mean fewer items.

Important Reminders:

PBIS Book Drive starts on Tuesday and runs until the end of February. We are collecting books for Principal Lazar's previous schools summer  reading program. If you have gently used children's books that are no longer being enjoyed at home please consider donating them to students of Whitmere Elementary School in Rockford. Kindergarten- fifth grade students will benefit from these donations.

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