Week of January 14-18

DATES:

Fri Jan 18 Homecoming Basketball game

Mon Jan 21 Delayed Start

Jump Rope For Heart envelopes went home.

READING:

We finished up our review week Monday and Tuesday.  Thursday we started the new unit on plants and what they need to grow.

Letter:  Hh

Sight words: my, at

Vocabulary: require, plant

Category words:  size words

Comprehension skills:  Character, setting and events

Beanie Baby strategy:  Repair Bear—reminds us to stop and think about what we are reading and see if we understand!

MATH:

We will be learning to play Top it (what you may remember as War).  We will also begin learning addition.  We are exploring the number grid (Counting Board app) to 100 on our Ipads. 

SCIENCE—

We will continue to look at motion.

We will also be talking about winter weather

WRITING:

We journal write daily.

We will be drawing a snowman using rhyming words.  We will be working on pattern books (books similar to Brown Bear, Brown Bear)

Assessments:

The children did the DIBELS test Monday. (the 1 minute test—letters, sounds and blending)

The 18^th we are taking the reading portion of the computer test (NWEA) and next Tuesday we do the Math.  I will begin doing report card assessments in the next few weeks for report cards that come home in February.

I’m quickly assessing sight words and numbers to see where the kids are at!  I’ll send a sheet home as I finish them!  We’ve introduced through at as of this week!  19 so far!  There is 51 total!

Children that turned in their Christmas homework sheets received a book.

Monday is the last day to turn those and the December Pizza Hut calendars.

Thanks for all you do with sight word and number practice.  I’m seeing growth in the children.  Keep reading books!  Seeing sight words in books really helps build their reading confidence!!!

Have a great weekend!
Melissa