Hello Families!

Happy 28th week of Young 5s! I hope you all enjoyed the Spring Break!! I missed my little students very much! But.. now we are back the swing if things and before we know it, it will be June! Time is going to fly by and I am going to do my best everyday to make the most of the moments I share with your amazing children!

Thursday is MATH NIGHT at Oakman!!! PLEASE come and join us for this free event! There will be many fun math games for us all to play. Games will be for sale too! The fun is from 5PM to 6PM!!!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as we practice asking and answering questions in 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 -it family. (ex. hit, pit)
• 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 (please) and (good).
• 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, down, find

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will continue a new math unit on measurement. We will work on using a scale to learn about what is heavy and what is light in terms of weight.

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. This week we are beginning to take a look at plants.

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “Where am I”. We will review 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!
• Write sight words in shaving cream or sand with parent supervision
• Practice letter formation
• Make and play a memory match game with sight words in cards.
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com.

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