Hello Families!

Happy 26th week of Young 5s! I hope you all enjoyed the weekend! I am excited for the exciting things we will be doing this week at school! Please be sure to read for 15 minutes each day and record the titles and minutes read on the back of the Minion paper for our March is Reading Month reading contest.

Wednesday, March 21st is Parent Teacher conferences. This is by appointment only. I will call you and schedule your child’s appointment if you I need to meet with you on this day. Not all students will be receiving on conference on this day.

Wednesday is also the first day of Spring!!!! Yay!!!!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying the main topic and supporting detail of informational texts. We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Identifying blends at the beginning of words. (ex. bl in black and fl in flower)
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. dish/wish)
• Identifying long vowels in words when super e is at the end. (ex. rope, kite)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -ap family. (ex. nap, rap)
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of the word..
• Identifying the sight words (yellow) and (they).
• Counting syllables in words.

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters and practice writing them! 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, did, he, red, so, not, go, green, will, him

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will start a new math unit on measurement. We will work on measuring the length of items using non-standard measurement.

Science: We will continue a new science unit about Ecosystems. We will first discuss what living and non-living mean as we identify what makes something living.

Social Studies:  We will begin a unit called “Where am I”. We will learn about position words such as up, down in, out, beside, in between. 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 will learn about how to handle when we feel disappointed. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will focus on Opinion Writing. We will write about our thoughts and feelings about a topic. We have been practicing using finger spaces between words in our writing. (ex. I like…… because….)

Homework Everyday:

• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
• Use objects at home to practice hands on addition and subtraction up to 10.
• Read books for 15 minutes! Record the title and minutes read on the back of the Minion paper.
• Draw a picture and label the drawing
• Write sight words in shaving cream or sand with parent supervision
• Practice letter formation
• Make and play a memory match game with sight words on cards.
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com

Thank you for all you do! Have an incredible week!  ~Mrs. Mehrhof