December 3-7th

Our focus this week was all about reindeer.  We will be reading and discussing Reindeer by Katie Marsico.  Reindeer have hooves.  Reindeer live in the Arctic.  Reindeer have antlers.  These are just some of the facts we learned about reindeer.  As we read our text this week, we learned how the author uses headers, labels, photographs and maps to help us better understand the information.

Vocabulary from the book:
Active: Busy doing lots of things
Antlers: Hard body parts that grow from reindeer
Arctic: Area surrounding the North Pole
Mammal: A warm-blooded animal that has fur/hair and feeds their babies milk
Hooves: Feet of a reindeer

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

-Sing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and see how many sight words you can hear.

-Make reindeer food: ¼ cup oats, ¼ cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, add sprinkles to sprinkle on the lawn on Christmas Eve 

We had a great time seeing Rudolph at the Center of Puppetry Arts on Thursday. I highly recommend going as a family as well to either that show or another production. They do a great job!

Important from our Room Moms!

Mrs. Rodgers has planned an awesome holiday party for the class that will be on Friday Dec. 21st from 9:00 - 10:00 am. 

We will have stations at the holiday party including pin the nose on the snowman, a marshmallow snowman craft, pom pom races, and build a pancake snowman, which they will have as their snack that day. 

We are in need of donations and volunteers to help run the stations. If you would like to volunteer, please send me an email (aliciabennett892@gmail.com) and I will put a list together of all who will be participating. 

I have created a sign up for donations which can be accessed at the following link.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0A4FABAE2AABFC1-holiday

We are looking forward to making this a fun party for our kids and thank you for all that you do for them!

Thank you,

Alicia Bennett and Heather Segura

A note from me about the holiday party, you can volunteer to come and help by contacting our Room Moms. The party is for the students so if you come you are going to be put to work 😊

Also, if you can try not to bring younger children that would be appreciated as our classroom is already going to be tight squeeze with the additional adults in the room. Also, it would be difficult to help when having to keep an eye on a younger child. Thank you for your understanding and help with this!

This unit is all about comparing numbers to 10 with mathematical vocabulary as well as comparing and ordering objects according to their measurable attributes.

Vocabulary for this unit:

-count: students will be able to state numbers in a sequence 0-10

-compare: students will be able to compare objects/numbers by stating which is greater than, less than or equal

-quantity: students will be able to count a set of objects and state how many are there

-length: students will be able to tell how long something is and compare their length – taller, shorter. same

-height: students will be able to tell how tall something is and compare their height by tallest, shortest, same

-weight: students will be able to tell how much something weighs and compare – heavier, lighter, same

-capacity: students will be able to tell how much something holds and compare – holds more, less or the same

Also in this quarter:

-Counting to 100

-Writing numbers to 20

-Counting objects to 20 in a line, circle and array and up to 10 objects scattered

-Continuing to Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers in each category and sort the categories by count.

**When you see the phrase "math drawing" in the homework that means to use circles to represent a quantity.**

In the Science Lab on Monday, December 3rd: 

Day and Night Sky, students will: 

• Examine the characteristics of day and night sky and how one changes into the other in a 24 hour cycle. 

• Focus on the simple changes from night to day and day to night, as well as the main objects in the sky – the sun and moon. 

Quarter 2 Social Studies:

• Recognize who Veterans are and why we celebrate them on Veterans Day.

• Identify the bald eagle as an American Symbol.

• Explain positive character traits of veterans.

• Learn how American culture celebrates Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day and how others celebrate in their cultures.

• Students will be introduced to historical events and figures within a given holiday.

• Students will learn about needs and wants.

Thank you to the families that are doing the homework! We appreciate the support from home! 

Second Quarter standards to reinforce at during homework time: The students should be writing their own homework at this point in the homework notebook. Please encourage proper letter formation (letters touching the right lines and only using uppercase letters for names and at the beginning of a sentence). Do more than one days worth of homework on a page and try not to skip pages. 

For the 2nd Quarter report card the students will need to:

·       Identify all upper case and lower case letters

·       Produce 23 or more consonant sounds

·       Produce 3 out of 5 short vowel sounds

·       Know 25 or more sight words ((we've taught 45 so far))

·       Recognize rhyming word pairs

·       Properly print 23 out of 52 letters

·       Write letters for most consonants and short vowels

·       Recognize and name ending punctuation ( . ! ?)

·       Compose a piece of writing with simple sentences that includes sight words and phonetically spelled words.

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

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