LANGUAGE ARTS
Theme: Red, White, and Blue
Letter Sounds: Long O
High Frequency Words: boy, out
Decodable: A Nut Pile & An Old Flag
Please have your child read and re-read the pre-decodable and the decodable books that are sent home. Depending upon your child's reading abilities these books will range from very easy to challenging. However, it is still good practice to have your child read and discuss these books with you at home.
MATH
This week our focus will be ordinal numbers. Students will learn the ordinal number (ex. 1st) and ordinal number word (ex. first).
Coming up:
- Capacity
- Telling time
- Money- identifying and counting coins
This week students will work on addition and subtraction, tens and ones, and place value.
Math Journals - (Tuesdays and Thursdays) Our Math Journal work begins with an open ended question that provides an opportunity for students to use multiple strategies for problem solving. Students are then asked to record their work and discuss how they solved the problem. Finally, a few students each week share their problem solving strategies with the class.
WRITING
This week's mini-lessons:
We will continue to work on writing conventions. Our focus will be spring!
CORE KNOWLEDGE UNIT
Mrs. Mase's students will go to Ms. Sather's room from 2:00-2:30 everyday for Science. Check out Ms. Sather's portal for more details!
Mrs. Makela's class will be learning about Classic Stories with Mrs. Mase.
Monday: Chicken Little
Tuesday: The Three Little Pigs
Wednesday: The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Thursday: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Friday: Bremen Town Musicians
SHOW AND SHARE
Friday!
HOMEWORK
- READ-O - complete 5 in a row, more than 5, or the whole page!
- Read 20 Minutes every night (READ-O can be applied to Reading Rodeo Minutes)
- Review High Frequency Words Grade K
- Practice writing numbers and letters
- Count forward and backward
- Play LEXIA or IXL
