News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room for the week of 3-12/3-16

Upcoming Events

3/19 – 3/22 Popcorn Sales (delivery on Friday 3/23)

3/22 Rainforest Live Assembly (Evening shows will be available to the public for $5 per person 5:30 – 6:30 and 6:30 – 7:30)

3/29 PBIS Celebration (board games and puzzles)

3/30 – 4/8 NO SCHOOL!!! SPRING BREAK!!!

 

Agenda for the week

Reading/writing  We worked on the letter Ii.     This week we learned the sight word in.  We are using I can see a, I like, and I can  as sentence starters for writer’s workshop.  We have learned the following sight words: I, am, can see, like, my, you and look in. Please practice writing sentences at home with the I am and I can and I see a, I like  sentence starters. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home.     We are learning to stretch our words and write the sounds we here and we are learning to put a period at the end of our sentence.  We learned how and when to use an exclamation point in our writing.Keep practicing your letters and sounds.DON’T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK! We are learning to use our sight words to create new stories during writers’s workshop.

Math  We are learning about greater than and less than. We are comparing two numbers to see which is greater.  We will continue working on numbers from 0-20. Please  have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.  We are working on counting to 30. We are learning to show the value of a number in different ways.  We are using our fingers, ten frames and tally marks to represent a number. We are playing math games in math workshop to help us learn numbers and their values.

Social  Studies  We are learning about maps and globes.  We are learning how to read a map and use the map key to find things on a map.

Science   We are learning about penguins.  We are going to read information books to learn more about penguins.

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!

 

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