It’s been a fun week! I feel like we’re really cruising with our learning. Kids are taking so many risks and learning so much. Every Friday we’ve been learning about a different type of social skill. Right now we’re talking about empathy and how to get along with our friends. Last week we talked about how we can tell someone feels by how their face and body looks like.
Reminders
RED FOLDER: RED Folders are due tomorrow. The folder should only take about 20-30 minutes a night. Students should be doing about 5-10 minutes of Math practice, 10 minutes of word practice (they can choose from the nonsense words, poem worksheet, spelling words, sight words, or sight word sentences) and 10-15 minutes of reading with you or another person.
VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY: I am looking for a parent to plan a little Valentine’s day party. If that’s something you’re interested in doing please e-mail me. We will have the party on February 14 from 1:30-2:30 PM. If this is something you’re interested in helping to plan, let me know ([email protected]).
READING GOALS: We have new reading goals. Students who meet their reading goals will get a reward at the end of February. We are going to vote as a class on what that reward is.
BOOK ORDER: Book orders went home last week and are due tomorrow, Friday January 20.
Specials Next week
Mon: Computer
Tues: Music, Library
Wed: Science Lab
Thurs: P.E.
Friday: Art
Thanks for sharing your wonderful child with me!
Warmly,
Mrs. Cranfill
970-488-6737 [email protected]
Here’s What We’re Learning Next Week
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Fiction, Expository
- Strategy: Ask Questions
- Skill: Character and setting
- High-Frequency Words
- About, give, pretty, says, were, write
- Oral Vocabulary
- Concerned, fortunate, member, share, trust
- Fluency
- Repeated Reading: Prosody
- Phonemic Awareness
- Rhyme, Phoneme categorization, Phoneme blending/segmentation
- Phonics
- Long e: e, ea, ee
Writing
- Grammar:
- Has and have
- Sentence punctuation
- Story: We are going to begin learning how to write stories with characters, setting, a problem and a beginning, middle, and end.
- Spelling words:
- Phonics words: me, feed, seat, we, keep, beak
- Challenge words: about, give, says, were
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: Concerned, fortunate, member, share, trust
Math
- Students will work with patterns
- Students will work with place value on a hundred chart.
- Students will use the hundred chart to practice skip counting by 5 and 10 and 2