Week of January 29, 2018

This week in literacy we will continue to read fairy tales.  We have read several versions of "The Three Little Pigs."  We have talked about characters traits and have practiced retelling the story - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  This week we will compare two versions and talk about which version we liked best and why.

We are beginning our class fairy tale - talking about the characters and setting.

In math we continue to work with teen numbers, making ten, addition number stories and shapes.

We will talk about Ground Hog Day and make some of our own predictions.

Our star student this week is:

            Damien

Our letters/words this week are:

          y, v
          from, she, who

REMINDERS:
Please continue to have your child practice sight words and counting to 100.

If your child brings in Valentine Cards we have 19 children in our class.  Please do not have your child write names on the cards.

Have a great week!

Week of January 22, 2018

This week we will continue to read and discuss "The Three Little Pigs" as part of our fairytale unit.  We will read several versions and compare and contrast and talk about the characters and character traits.  We are focusing on retelling stories - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.

We will begin work on a class story.  We will discuss who the characters should be, a setting and then the problem and solution.

In math we will be practicing counting to 100, writing numbers to 20 and writing combinations that add up to 10.

Our letters/sounds and words of the week are:

                  "th", "w"
                    put, have, love

Our star student this week is:

                    Yasmin

REMINDERS:
Wednesday, January 24th is an early dismissal day.

Have a great week.

Below are our star students for the past few weeks.

Santino is sharing the star student journal.

Thiago is sharing the star student journal.

Willian is sharing the star student journal.

Week of January 16, 2018

This week we will begin our fairy tale unit.  We will talk about what a fairy tale is and our first story will be "The Three Little Pigs".  We will also begin a class  fairy tale - thinking about characters, setting, beginning middle and end.

In math we continue to work with teen numbers, and solving number stories.  We also will practice counting by 1's and 10's to 100.

We continue to read and work on some special winter projects.

Our star student this week is:  Willian

Letter/sound and words
s, sh           with, do, they

Have a good week!

Week of January 2, 2018

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays.

This week we will read stories about winter and will retell using our retelling hand - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.

We will continue to write stories with a beginning, middle and end.  We will talk about adding interesting details to our pictures and writing.

In math we continue to work with teen numbers, number stories, tens frames and shapes.

We will be talking about animals in winter and doing some special projects.

Our letter/sound and words of the week are:

Ff, run, he, play.

We are talking about rhyming words and word families.

Our star student this week is Santino.

Star Student Nickolas

Independent reading time during our Guided Reading Block

Group work

We took a ride on our Polar Express.

Happy Birthday Santino!

Patiently working and waiting for our Special Lunch!

Our Lunch with Mom was special and fun!