February 4th-8th

I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff and I’ll Blow your house down!  Our focus this week was all about the three pigs.  We will begin learning about fairy tales.  The story of the week is The Three Pigs by Paul Galdone. We will listen and retell the story of The Three Little pigs discussing the sequential story elements: the beginning, middle, and the end.  We will also be discussing characters within the story and how we can retell stories ourselves. We also read different versions of the Three Little Pigs and we compared and contrasted the different versions to Paul Galdone's version. 

Vocabulary from the book:

fortune: large amount of money; wealth 

bundle: a number of things that have been tied together

huffed: to breathe hard 

blaze: a bright flame; fire 

Here are just a few activities you can do at home with your child this weekend:

• Reenact the story of The Three Little Pigs together.
• Make the three little pig’s houses using different types of food: pretzels as sticks, chocolate chunks as bricks, and potato sticks as hay

For access to leveled books and their 20 minute reading time you could use:

Kids A-Z Login Instructions

Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com

Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher's username, jrodgers4

Step 3: Their student number is their username and password

Please practice sight words! Majority of students are doing great with these so if you are practicing at home, thank you! The school year is going by quickly and if they are behind on sight words this will hurt their reading and writing. 

Save any sight word books or practice pages that come home and go over them as well as using flash cards. 

We have taught 65 sight words at this point in the school year. 

Here are a couple websites to help with different strategies to use at home: 

https://www.k12reader.com/sight-word-teaching-strategies/

https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/sight-words-101.html 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsAsYlJSSx-qcUr6D4i-LPBvkV2Suy0iV

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2018-2019

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 6
August 13		I, it, is
August 20		a, as, do
August 27	M and short A	am, and, an
September 4	S	so, see, me
September 10	T	to, the, my
September 17	N	not, on, no
September 24	FALL BREAK
October 1	Short I	at, in, will
October 8	F	he, she, we
October 15	P and Short O	said, saw, was
October 22	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 29	H	his, help, her
November 5	B	big, by, be
November 12	Short U	but, up, us
November 19	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 26	R	ran, run, him
December 3	Short E	when, then, well
December 10	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 17	D	did, had, has
January 7	W/Wh	what, were
January 14	L	like, let, look
January 22	J	put, out, now
January 28	K	must, into, all
February 4	Y	your, you, yes
February 11	V/Z	very, love, of
February 18	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 25	Q	want, went, who
March 4	X	little, have, with
March 11	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 18	Long A	ate, make, say
March 25	Long E	please, eat, here
April 1	APRIL BREAK
April 8	Long I	find, fly, why
April 15	Long O	home, going, this
April 22	Long U	new, some, they
April 29	OO	soon, good, too
May 6	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 13	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 20	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

At this point the students should be writing their own work in the homework notebooks in pencil using proper letter and number formation. Please do more than one day per page and label each day so I am not having to search all over for it when I go to check it.

Other ELA standards that will continue to be covered this Quarter that should be practiced and encouraged during homework:

• Identify all 52 letters
• recognize rhyming words and produce rhyming words
• isolate and produce initial, medial vowel and final sounds in CVC words (consonant vowel consonant, ex: bus, cat, log, etc...)
• Produce all 23 consonant sounds this includes hard and soft c and g
• produce all 5 short vowel sounds
• Read 50 or more sight words
• Read at a level C book independently or higher

Writing this unit students will:
**Please practice writing especially in homework. Uppercase letter to start a sentence. Punctuation at the end.**

• Students will be able to provide reasons and consequences to persuade their audience
• Students will communicate their opinion to individuals in their classroom and beyond.
• Write detailed sentences that include grade appropriate sight words and phonetically spelled words. 
• Independently begin to capitalize the first word in a sentence AND the pronoun I.
• Recognize and names ending punctuation (period, question mark and exclamation point) AND begins to use them in their writing.
• Write letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds.
• Multiple meaning words are brought back this Quarter, we visited them in Quarter 1. (ex: knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck)

This unit is all about subtraction. Students will solve subtraction word problems. Students will also master subtraction fluency within 5. We have learned this week the strategy of drawing a picture and crossing out as well as using a number line to solve a subtraction problem. 

Also in quarter 3:

• Count to 100 by ones and tens
• Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group. For example: by using matching and counting strategies.
• Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
• Fluently add and subtract within 5.

In this unit, students will: 

• Observe, classify and arrange objects/organisms into groups of living and non-living things. 
• Construct their own explanations about how they can tell the difference between living and nonliving objects. 
• Develop a natural interest in the world around them. 
• Observe, compare, and sort rocks and other earth materials by their physical attributes.

In this unit, students will:

• Describe Martin Luther King Jr. and why he is celebrated (MLK Day)
• Identify Presidents day and describe people celebrated (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, current President) 
• Identify the following Symbols: Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and White House

Civic Government and Understandings

• Demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship. 
• Explain why rules should be followed.
• Describe examples of positive character traits exhibited by good citizens such as honesty, patriotism, courtesy, respect, pride, and self-control.

In the homework we've been having them practice their street address as this is an important thing for them to memorize but it is also a grade in quarter 4. For the grade they will need to: State the street address, city, state and country in which the student lives.

We will be discussing various ways to prevent the spread of germs. Please encourage good hygiene at home: brushing teeth, washing hands after coughing, sneezing, blowing nose, proper use of a tissue, etc ...

Mrs. Waite our counselor came on Monday to discuss how to be good listeners which is something we are working on daily! 

Upcoming School Events:

Monday, February 11th - Friday, February 15th
Teacher Appreciation Week

Tuesday, February 12th
Papa John's Pizza Night

Thursday, February 14th
Progress Reports go home

Monday, February 18th - Friday, February 22nd, 
Winter Break, No School

Monday, February 25th - Friday, March 1st
Read Across America Week

Tuesday, February 26th, 5:00-8:00 pm
Firehouse Sub Night

Friday, March 1st, 7:00-7:45 am
FBI Breakfast

Friday, March 1st, 6:00 pm
Talent Show

For any additional school information please visit Addison's website: http://www.cobbk12.org/Addison/