Week of November 28, 2016

During our literacy block we will continue to read fairy tales.  This week we will listen to "Pretty Salma" a South African fairy tale.  We will talk about the beginning, middle, and end, characters and setting.  We will finish our class fairy tale and begin our own fairy tales.

In math we will work with length - longer and shorter.  We will use position words - over, under, on, off etc.  We will continue counting and writing numbers in our number books.

We will talk about the winter holidays that are coming up and work on some special December holiday projects.

Our letters/words of the week are:  "u", "she", "he".  We also will review rhyming words and alliterations.

Our star student this week is:

                Daniel

Thank  you to all the parents who contributed and helped with our Thanksgiving feast.  It was fun and truly appreciated.

REMINDER
Wednesday, November 30th is an early dismissal day.

We had a great time at our Thanksgiving Feast!

Week of November 21, 2016

This week during our literacy block we will continue our fairy tale unit.  We will read "Little Red Riding Hood" and discuss characters - character traits, setting, problem and solution.  We will continue to write our class fairy tale.

In math we will be working with the 10's frame and seeing how different combinations can make 10. We also will continue to work with graphs.

We are discussing Thanksgiving and thinking of things that we are thankful for.

Our words of the week are:  like    at
We are working with the "ch" sound.

Students should know all the first marking period sight words.  Please continue to practice letters/sounds and sight words with your child.

REMINDER
Our Thanksgiving feast is on Wednesday, November 23rd at 11:30AM.  We also have an early dismissal day on Wednesday.

Thank you for all your support and I wish everyone and their family a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Anderson was our Star Student and shared his journal writing with us.

Week of November 14, 2016

During our literacy block we will continue our fairy tale unit.  This week we will read and act out The Three Pigs.  We will also work on our class story which will include characters, setting, problem and solution.

In math we will work with solving number stories and graphing this week.  We also continue to work with numbers - counting and writing.  We continue to practice counting to 100.

We continue our Thanksgiving stories and projects.

Our letters/sounds, words of the week are:  "Pp" "yes" "no".
We also will talk about compound words.

Have a great week!

Week of November 7, 2016

This is a short week.  Just a reminder there is no school for the students on Tuesday and Friday.

During our literacy block we will begin our fairy tale unit.  We will talk about what fairy tales are, about characters, setting, problem and solution.  We will also write a class story and together come up with characters, setting a problem and solution for our story.

In math we are working with shapes this week and will begin to solve number stories.

We will do some special Thanksgiving projects and talk about why we celebrate Thanksgiving.

Our letter/words of the week are:  "Kk", can, an.

We read the book "Duck For President".  We voted for the animal we wanted to be in charge of the barnyard.  We made posters supporting the animal we chose, we cast our ballot, we counted our ballots and got an "I Voted" sticker.  It was great fun.  Ask your child which animal won the election.