January 22nd-25th

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!  Why does snow melt? We will explore and learn all about snow this week.  We will be read and discussed the fiction book, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.    

Vocabulary from the book:

piled: a number of things on top of each other

path: a track beaten by the feet of people or animals

pretend: to imagine or believe

sank: settled in or covered

firm: hard or solid when pressed

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

• Write sight words on scrap pieces of paper.  Wad the paper up and have a snowball fight.  Pick up the snowballs and read the words inside.
• Use cotton balls (snow) and toss into cups.  Count and see how many you can get it the cups.
• Watch The Snowy Day on Amazon Prime Video!
  https://www.amazon.com/The-Snowy-Day/dp/B01M29SIU2
• Compare and contrast The Snowy Day on Amazon Prime Video to the story book:
  http://viewpure.com/FmZCQfeWjeQ?start=0&end=0 

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)

This unit is all about combining sets and grasping a firm understanding of addition facts to 5. (We have been adding to 10 because they are doing so well to 5)

We learned the strategy of using a number line this week. 

We have also learned to draw circles to solve an addition problem. 

Next Friday we will have our post test on addition problems 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 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.

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 school counselor read a book about boogers (how to stay healthy) and how to make a boogie ghost with our tissues! 

Upcoming School Events:

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 (Fathers Being Involved) 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