January 3-12

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a great holiday!

DATES:

January  15—Delayed Start—new character is Integrity

January 18 –1/2 day—dismissal 11:35

January 19—1/2 day—dismissal 11:35--Sledding party if we get snow! J

January 22—DIBELS testing

January 26—report cards go home

Last week we reviewed the letters and sight words we were working on before break!

This week we worked on the following:

READING:

This week we are learning about plants and what they need ro grow (water, sun, air, soil).  We will be starting an Amaryllis plant.  As we read we will be looking at character, setting and events in the story. 

 Letter Hh,

Sight words my & at 

Vocabulary words –require & plant

Category words:  Size words

WRITING:

We continue to write in our journals every day!  We are getting good at starting our sentences with a capital letter, leaving spaces between words and ending our sentences with an end mark!  We also use the letters and sounds to sound out words we don’t know and use sight words in our sentences!!!

We are also continuing our work on pattern books.

MATH:  We are reviewing numbers, shapes and starting to look at 3D solid shapes (cube, sphere, prism).  We are reviewing writing numbers and starting on writing teen number

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:  We are wrapping up our talk of the character fairness.  We will be reading stories of winter and snowmen.  Our science unit will be force and motion.  We will discuss gravity and what makes things move with push or pull motion.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  MASON

Mason likes doing math.  He likes farming and has milked a cow names Rosie!  Mason likes Cheerios, brats, chicken, hot dogs, cake and pancakes.  His favorite movie is Transformers.  His goals are to be a farmer and a good reader.

***Back in November—someone left a green Walgreens bag when we did Stone Soup---

I also have a plastic pink coffee cup sleeve—If either are yours, let me know!!