January 9-13

Starting this week, students can bring one thing in to share from home during our Morning Meeting time! Check your email to see what day your child can bring something in to share.

Upcoming events:
January 16-20: Celebrate NDLC Week! See below for flyer! 
January 16: PJs and Stuffed Animal Day
January 16: Family Night-Art Night
January 17: Crazy Hair or Hat Day
January 18: No School
January 19: Sports Day and Family Gym Night
January 20: Half Day and Book Character Day

Reading:  As your child continues to get books with more unfamiliar words, they will need to rely heavily on their letter-sound knowledge. When a readers tells me "I don't know this word" I usually tell them to "Try a strategy". As they are working to figure out the word, I might coach them by saying "Check the picture" or "Use the first few letters". Once students make a guess at what the word is, I ask "Does it look like that word-check the letters at the beginning and end". This way, you are helping your child figure out how to decode rather than doing the work for them. Happy reading!

Writing:  As we continue to work with How To books, students will work with partners to act out the books to check if the directions/steps make sense. They will add labels to their pictures and diagrams. Finally, they will look at our charts to set goals to create the very best writing they can! For example, students may choose to focus on writing details about their topic. I am excited to see how the students set goals for themselves.

Math: We will work with teen numbers, adding and subtracting, and shapes.

• Students will use dice to race to be the first to make a teen number. They are encouraged to add numbers and group manipulatives in ten and five groups to see the numbers quickly.   
• Mathematicians will practice adding and subtracting fluently within five. They will use a five frame to help them solve and visualize the problems. 
• Students will use triangles, rectangles, squares, circles, and hexagons to create new shapes. A partner will try to create the same shape. Then, they will discuss the shapes’ attributes and how you can use familiar shapes to make a new shape. 
•  Mathematicians will dump of cup full of chips to find out what teen number is in the cup. Then, they will draw a picture of that teen number and fill in the blanks to tell how many 10s and 1s make up the teen number. 

Word Study:  Our sight words for the week are play, have, get, will, & for.

Social Studies : We are beginning a new unit studying families! We will begin this week exploring the question, “What is a family?” We will do this through a video aloud, read aloud, and class discussions. During a video aloud, students view a video without sound. During this time, they are watching carefully to try and interpret what they see. After discussion, we will listen to the audio and continue class discussion.

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