We learned how to take turns, recognize colors, and follow directions while playing Candyland!!! (Mrs. Mehrhof’s favorite game!!!)

I have brothers and sisters!

We are practicing fine motor skills as we cut, glue, and accordion fold to create our heart people!

We are practicing fine motor skills as we cut, glue, and accordion fold to create our heart people!

These heart people are colored to show who is in our family! The pink shows we have only sisters. The blue shows we have only brothers. The red shows we have both brothers and sisters. 🙂

These heart people are colored to show who is in our family! The pink shows we have only sisters. The blue shows we have only brothers. The red shows we have both brothers and sisters. 🙂

These heart people are colored to show who is in our family! The pink shows we have only sisters. The blue shows we have only brothers. The red shows we have both brothers and sisters. 🙂

These heart people are colored to show who is in our family! The pink shows we have only sisters. The blue shows we have only brothers. The red shows we have both brothers and sisters. 🙂

These heart people are colored to show who is in our family! The pink shows we have only sisters. The blue shows we have only brothers. The red shows we have both brothers and sisters. 🙂

Friday is a parent meeting at 1:45 in the cafeteria! Please make plans to attend! Thank you!

Have a great evening! Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today your child is bringing home their report card from Card Marking 2. They are also bringing home a detailed progress report. Please review each of these and let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I will be glad to meet with you to discuss. 🙂

We will have a late start on Wednesday. School will begin at 9:30. There will be a parent meeting on Friday at 1:45. Please plan on attending.

Today we practiced using the Internet to find a photograph of a real lion. We practiced asking questions using question words! Then we asked our questions to Mr. Abu-Rus!

We asked each other questions about lions using question words!

We are doing Work on Writing as a Daily 5 choice! We are now using notebooks!!!!

We are learning to use question words to ask questions about a topic! This week our topic is lions!

Mr. Abu-Rus answered the questions we asked about lions!

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs Mehrhof

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

Hello Families!

February 2nd was Groundhog’s Day! On Thursday the children made predictions if the groundhog would see his shadow. 9 predicted yes he would see his shadow and 4 predicted that he would not. We graphed our predictions! We talked about what it means to make a prediction. We also talked what is needed for a shadow to appear. (sun/light) We played with our shadows and traced our friend’s shadow using the Promethean Board and the light from the projector. (Thanks for the great idea, Mrs. Chehab!)

We also practiced narrative writing using a BME organizer and pictures to tell about our field trip. The children placed three pictures in order (BME) We also took turns with our buddies using our BMEs to orally tell our personal narratives to each other! Then they used their knowledge of letter sounds to write a personal narrative about our day. Here are some pictures of what we did!

We used the Promethean Pen to trace our friends’ shadows!

We played with our shadows!!

We used our groundhog puppets to tell our predictions!

We orally told our personal narratives to our buddies using our BMEs.

We orally told our personal narratives to our buddies using our BMEs.

Oh… by the way…. the groundhog saw his shadow on Friday! So…. it looks like we are going to have 6 more weeks of winter. And… if you heard the weather….looks like Superbowl Sunday will be a snowy one for us! Be careful on the roads if you go out. 🙂

Thanks for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today was so much fun! The children were very well behaved and demonstrated their manners! Sesame Street Live was perfect! We learned more about community, caring about others, and compromise! Thank you for allowing your children to attend our field trip! I am very proud of them and their good choices!

Enjoy the pictures from today!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

We had a great day at Sesame Street Live!

Thank you Sal’s pizza and the Fawaz family for the yummy lunch! Thank you to Alireda’s dad and Jamal’s mom for joining us on our field trip! 🙂

Thanks for all you do! There is no school on Friday!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Tomorrow is our first field trip! We will leave on the bus around 9:15. Please be sure your child eats a good and healthy breakfast! We will not be eating lunch until later in the afternoon. The children are encouraged to dress up! We are super excited!!!!

Here is a sneak peak at what we will see!

Check out this collection of read along books featuring the Sesame Street characters.

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

We are very blessed to have the technology we have at Oakman! The children learned a math game from abcya.com to practice addition. It is called “Marble Math“. The Promethean Board was used as a station during math workshop time. I also introduced the fifth independent Daily 5 Choice…Listen to Reading. The children use iPads and headphones as they listen to stories, poems, and songs on starfall.com.

We are becoming better readers and writers as we practice building stamina during Listen to Reading!

We are becoming better readers and writers as we practice building stamina during Listen to Reading!

We are becoming better readers and writers as we practice building stamina during Listen to Reading!

We are learning to take turns as we count the marbles for the addends to add to find the sum in Marble Math.

Thanks for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Happy 20th week of Young 5s! I am looking forward to another wonderful week with my super star students as we go on our first FIELD TRIP!!!!!

Wednesday is our field trip to the Fox Theater to see Sesame Street Live. The bus will leave Oakman around 9:15. Please have your child at school no later than 8:30 on this day!!! Also, I am encouraging the children to dress up for the show. Dress shoes will be fine to wear as long as there is no snow. I am so so so excited!!!

*There is no school for Young 5s and Kindergarten on Friday!

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 narrative literature. 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 -at family.
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sound.
• Identifying the sight words (jump) and (she).

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

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.

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 finging our 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 personal narratives. We will use a BME (beginning, middle, end) organizer to help us write about our field trip.

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! Have an awesome week!       Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Before I tell you about all of the awesome things we have been learning and doing, please remember, we have a HALF DAY tomorrow. Dismissal is at 11:45. Please send a healthy snack to school for your child. We will have snack at 11:00 since they are used to eating lunch at 11:15. (They will be hungry! :))

We have been learning about 2D shapes. Each day we created circle maps for the shape of the day as a review of the facts for that shape. Then we used items to trace and create illustrations featuring that shape. We did this for square, triangle, circle, and rectangle. We are making a 2D shapes book!

We have been learning about 2D shapes. Each day we created circle maps for the shape of the day as a review of the facts for that shape. Then we used items to trace and create illustrations featuring that shape. We did this for square, triangle, circle, and rectangle. We are making a 2D shapes book!

We have been learning about 2D shapes. Each day we created circle maps for the shape of the day as a review of the facts for that shape. Then we used items to trace and create illustrations featuring that shape. We did this for square, triangle, circle, and rectangle. We are making a 2D shapes book!

We are learning about different types of hazardous weather. We identified facts and asked and answered questions about blizzards, floods, and hurricanes. Today we used 2D shapes to create a 3D house from a recycled milk carton to use during our performance task tomorrow. We will be working together to create a way to keep these houses safe from a flood.

We used 2D shapes to create our one of a kind houses!

Mr. Abu-Rus visited our class to help us learn more about floods!

We practiced literacy centers with our book buddies!

We learned the differences between 2D and 3D shapes! We used 2D shapes to create the 3D shapes of a cube, pyramid, and rectangular prism!

We learned the differences between 2D and 3D shapes! We used 2D shapes to create the 3D shapes of a cube, pyramid, and rectangular prism!

Next week is our field trip on Wednesday! We are so excited!!! I am encouraging the children to dress up in their favorite clothes! If there is snow on the ground, please send your child to school in boots that day. If not, dress shoes on Wednesday will be fine! 🙂 We will eat lunch at the school after the show!

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families! Happy 19th week of Young 5s! I am looking forward to another wonderful week with my super star students!

Friday is a half day! School will dismiss at 11:45. Friday is a name writing test for your child. I will test them on writing their first and last names. Please practice everyday at home!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying main idea/topic and key details of informational texts as we learn the importance of asking questions to learn more about the topic. We will also review features of narrative stories and nursery rhymes as this is the last week of the card marking! We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. frog/log)
• long vowel sounds in words that end with super e. (ex. like, mile)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sound.
• Identifying the sight words (have) and (yes).

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

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will continue to learn more about 2D shapes and their characteristics such as number of sides.! We will also review addition with objects up to 5.

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. blizzards and floods)

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “How do we get what we need and want?”. We will discuss what is meant by a want and what we can do to earn and get the things we want. 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 accidents and what to do and say when we accidentally do something.

Writing: We will work on informational writing. We will write facts about shapes. We will also use a circle map to organize our facts.  

Homework Everyday:

• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
• Read books for 15 minutes!
• Write first name and last name

Thank you for all you do! Have a great week!      

Mrs. Mehrhof