February 25th - March 1st

Congratulations to our Leader of the Month for February, Zoey!

Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?  Our focus this week was all about the three billy goats.  We read Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Gadone and continued learning about fairy tales.  We compared different versions of the Three Billy Goats this week.  We saw that pictures can give us clues to help us understand words that we do not know the meaning of.  We learned that there is more than one way to retell stories.

Vocabulary from the book:

valley: a long area of low land between two mountains

fine: very good; excellent

rushing: moving quickly

roared: to make a deep shout in anger

trampled: to be stepped on; crushed

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

• Reenact the story of Three Billy Goats by having a puppet show.
• STEM Challenge: Make a bridge out of toothpicks and marshmallows. 

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

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

ReadingEggs is great for both reading and math! It is often our technology piece on homework.
The students can access ReadingEggs or MathSeeds once they login using their student ID number for both their username and password: https://readingeggs.com/

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGYHDxmjqlQ&list=PLQK2XiUY9C2goAU9vFtgyRWAO-srC6iJf

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

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.

This week we are learning all about the duties of the Unites States President!  We will learn about their job, responsibilities and even where they live.

Vocabulary:

law:  set of rules people must follow
speech:  a talk given to an audience

countries: large area of land where people live

military: the armed forces; protect
West Wing:  a building connected to the White House where the president lives and works.

Oval Office:  the room where the president does his work

White House: the home and workplace of the U.S. president

carpenters: people who build and fix things made out of wood

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 kind to others.

Upcoming School Events:

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

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

For more events coming up in March please refer to Mrs. Hallmark's calendar that went home on green paper!

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