January 14th -18th

Congratulations to our Leader of the Month for January, Isaac!

Our focus this week in reading was all about snowmen. We read a fun book this week called Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright. This story is all about a snowman who is cold and looking for a way to warm up, but there are consequences with every method he tries. However, some children help him find the perfect solution to his problem! 

Vocabulary from the book:

shivered: shook slightly because you were cold

melted: changed from a solid to a liquid

puddle: a small amount of water on the ground

campfire: a fire that is built outdoors in a camp area

scoops: round portions of a soft solid 

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

• Have and indoor sight word snowball fight. Ball up pieces of white paper with sight words written inside. Read all the sight word snowballs you get hit with! Have fun!
• Use marshmallows of different sizes along with toothpicks to make edible snowmen. 

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. Thanks!

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:

• 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)

We've started addition within 5

This unit is all about combining sets and grasping a firm understanding of addition facts to 5.

combine: students will put numbers and objects together to get a bigger number or amount

add: to bring two or more numbers (things) together for a new total

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 (subtraction coming soon) within 5.

In the Science Lab the students sorted objects by living and non-living. The students also went on a walk outside to observe living and non-living things around our school.

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. b. 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.

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 ... 

Upcoming School Events:

Penny Wars

• Get out your pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and even paper money!
• Penny Wars is coming to Addison Jan. 14-31st 2018!
• This event pits grade against grade in a bid to see who can get the most copper coins and sabotage the other grades with the most silver coins!
• To win: bring in pennies and put them in your grade's jar, located at the foyer in the school by the office. Bring in any other money and SABOTAGE the other grades!

Saturday, January 19th, Reading Bowl Competition

Monday, January 21st, MLK Holiday, No School

Tuesday, January 22nd, 6:00 pm, Munch and Mingle, Learn How to Raise your child in a Cyber World

Thursday, January 24th, Talent Show Tryouts afterschool

Thursday, January 24th, 5:00-8:00 pm, Chick-Fil-A Night

Friday, January 25th, Penny Wars End

Friday, January 25th, Talent Show Tryouts afterschool

Friday, January 25th, Father-Daughter Dance

Tuesday, January 29th, 7:30 am, School Council Meeting in the Learning Commons

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

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