December 9th-13th

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

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 its baby milk
• hooves: feet of a reindeer

Here are just a few activities you can do at home with your child this week!

• Sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and see how many sight words you can hear.
• Make reindeer food in a bag: ¼ oats ¼ brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Sprinkles

Friday (the 13th) is our field trip, if your child is bringing lunch from home please pack it in a completely disposable bag/container. We will not bring anything with us we can't throw out. If your child is getting a school lunch they will be good to go!

**We will continue to assess for the report cards during these weeks prior to the break. If I suggested working on something on the progress report, please practice at home! Also, please reinforce good behaviors because we have a lot to accomplish these next couple weeks.**

Please look at the columns labeled Q2 on your child's report cards to see what we will be teaching/assessing this quarter!

For reading and phonics students will need to:

• Identify all upper and lowercase letters
• Recognize rhyming words by listening to sets of words
• Produce all 23 consonant sounds
• Produce 3-5 vowel sounds
• Read 25 or more sight words
• Read at a level B

For writings students will need to:

• Write simple sentences that include grade appropriate sight words and phonetically spelled words. 
• Handwriting: Print 23 upper and lowercase letters with consistency, accuracy and independence.
• Recognize and name punctuation (period, question mark and exclamation point)
• Consistently write letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds.
• Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (-ed, -s, un-, pre-)

For math we will be moving into/continuing: 

Counting to 100
Writing numbers to 20
Counting objects to 20 in a line, circle and array and up to 10 objects scattered
Comparing objects and numbers up to 10
Describe several measurable attributes of an object, such as length or weight.  For example, a student may describe a book as, “This shoe is heavy! It is also really long!"
Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/”less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.
Continuing to Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers in each category and sort the categories by count.

In 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.

In Science:

Motion, students will:

-Understand that things move in different ways and that gravity affects objects. 
-Activities in a unit on motion and gravity should give them context for the two concepts and stepping stones for additional knowledge and understanding in subsequent years. Simple concrete explanations of gravity and motion are appropriate, and may be addressed with the specific examples in the standards.
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. 

Letters and Sight Words of the Week 2019-2020

Date	Letter/Blend/Digraph	Sight Words
August 1	FIRST WEEK
August 5
August 12	Short I	I, it, is
August 19	M	am, and, an
August 26	Short A	a,  as, do
September 3	S	so, see, me
September 9	T	to, the, my
September 16	N	not, on, no
September 23	FALL BREAK
September 30	Short O	at, in, will
October 7	F	he, she, we
October 14	P	said, saw, was
October 21	C (hard and soft)	can, came, come
October 28	H	his, help, her
November 4	B	big, by, be
November 11	Short U	but, up, us
November 18	R	ran, run, him
November 25	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
December 2	Short E	when, then, well
December 19	G (hard and soft)	go, give, get
December 16	D	did, had, has
January 6	W/Wh	what, were
January 13	L	like, let, look
January 21	J	put, out, now
January 27	K	must, into, all
February 3	Y	your, you, yes
February 10	V/Z	very, love, of
February 17	FEBRUARY BREAK
February 24	Q	want, went, who
March 2	X	little, have, with
March 9	Bossy R (ar, or, ir, ur, er)	are, for, from
March 16	Long A	ate, make, say
March 23	Long E	please, eat, here
March 30	Long I	Find, fly, why
April 6	APRIL BREAK
April 13	Long O	home, going, this
April 20	Long U	new, some, they
April 27	OO	soon, good, too
May 4	OU/OW	down, our, how
May 11	Sh,Th,Ch	there, where
May 18	LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

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