Unit 2: Literacy unit: Friends

Reading: We are reading these stories: Friends all around, Making Friends, The fight, The lion and the mouse, Brer turtle helps out

Strategies from our CAFE menu

• Comprehension- identifying characters, setting (goal)
• Accuracy: Identifying the first sound in a word
• Fluency: Recognize sight words: I we, the, can, recognize letters Aa-Zz
• Expanding vocabulary-Reading from left to right, Reading from top to bottom, Read from the left page and move to the right page

 Letters of the week:Pp. We will be making  lists  of things that begin with the letter Pp. Please discuss things that begin with the letters Mm, Aa, Ss and Pp

Sight words: a (pronounced “ah,”  not “aye.”)

Review: I, can, we, can, like

Writing: We will be practicing writing all the letters correctly. We will also practice writing sentences. We have been discussing what a good sentence looks like. It begins with a capital, there is space between the words, and it ends with an end mark.  Our focus will be opinion writing.

Math:  We will continue to count everything. we are now writing number 0-20. Your child should be writing numbers correctly and able to give you the next number. We are still working on number 0-20 orally. We are still focusing on tricky teens. We will also explore estimation, different coins and patterns.

Science: We will continue to explore the fall seasons. We will look at pumpkins. We will investigate what they look like and compare them to squash. We will open the pumpkin and record our findings. We will then make a pumpkin craft.

Social Studies: We will continue doing cooperative activities to reinforce team building within our classroom and within our table groups. Cooperation is our key word here!

Notes:

Our Halloween parade is Friday at 1:15 -weather permitting. Your child may still bring in their costume in a bag and after music time we will change.

Wednesday is library day!

Thanks,

Ms. Mohamed