Hello Families! Happy 21st week of Young 5s! I am looking forward to another wonderful week with my super star students!

Wednesday, February 7th is a late start. School will begin at 9:30!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying question words as we ask questions about informational text on Lions!. We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. frog/log)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -an family.
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sound.
• Identifying the sight words (he) and (did).

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters! Please review the following sight words: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I, it, in, said, for, am, make, here, can, is, up, do, big, little, yes, have, jump, she

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will compare numbers up to 10. We will also practice finding the sums for addition problems up to 5. We will also begin learning about subtraction.

Science: We will talk about the different types of weather, (rainy, snowy, sunny, partly cloudy, and cloudy) We will record the day’s weather on our weather graphs. In addition, we will identify characteristics of hazardous types of weather. (ex. tornados)

Social Studies:  We will begin a unit called “Who am I?”. We will compare who we are with who are friends are by finding out who in our class has brothers, sisters, or none. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions. We have been focusing on what to do when we have a strong feeling. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will work on informational writing using digital tools such as the Internet. We will use a R.A.N. chart as we analyze non-fiction text about lions!

Homework Everyday:

• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
• Use the deck of cards I sent home to use two at a time to compare the numbers and identify which is greater (more). This is called “Top-It”.
• Read books for 15 minutes!
• Write first name and last name
• Draw a picture and label the drawing
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof