Hello Families!

Happy 30th week of Young 5s! I hope you are all enjoying this amazing weather!!!

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL IN A PLAIN WHITE SHIRT TOMORROW!!!!!

Please practice this song with your child! Thanks!

Please remember to send a healthy snack to school with your child everyday!! Thanks!!

This week we will talk more about ways we can take care of Earth. We will talk about recycling as one of those ways! We will also participate in the Care to Core Assembly. We will sing with Mrs. Shooshanian’s class! I am looking forward to another wonderful week of school! Please be sure your child sends in the money and the permission slip for the field trip to the farm by Friday! I would like for each child to bring an adult for this trip so please make plans on attending with us!

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 also practice comparing two different texts on the same topic.  We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Identifying blends at the beginning of words. (ex. st as in star and sl as in sleep)
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. dish/wish)
• Identifying plurals; more than one. (ex. dog/dogs, bush/bushes)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -ug family. (ex. hug, mug)
• 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 (two) and (has).
• 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, good, please, come, one

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will continue our math unit on measurement. We will continue to work on using a scale to learn about what is heavy and what is light in terms of weight. We will also continue using non-standard forms of measurement to identify how long something is.

Science: We will continue our 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 going to continue 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 when we are waiting. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will focus on Informational writing. We will write about insects and recycling this week! We will write as we identify facts on these topics. Please help your child to practice writing at home each day!

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 awesome week!~Mrs. Mehrhof