Please put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night.  This can count on the reading log in the homework for some of the nightly reading!

Upcoming Events

2/20 – 2/24 Mid-Winter Break

2/28 PBIS PARTY – Beach Fun

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We finished our informational reading and writing about animals that hibernate. All of the children completed a “blueprint” or graphic organizer, however not all of the children published their writing about each animal.

Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.

Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:

Uppercase to start the sentence

End punctuation (. ! ?)

Finger spaces between words

Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?

Does the picture match the words?

Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)

Math: We took our +7 math quiz. Yesterday, I sent home the +8 flashcards to practice over mid-winter break. We will take the +8 quiz on Friday, March 3, 2017.

This week we began learning about comparing numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols. The children were able to complete a fun project where they rolled dice and had to decide which number the greater than alligator head wanted to eat or if the numbers were the same (equal to).

Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..).  Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).

Housekeeping Items:

Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc.  As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.