Literacy Unit: Animals-change and grow

Reading: We will be reading a non-fiction book called Animal Babies an ABC book. This book tells us the name of the animal baby and some facts. We will be sorting and classifying the animals by fur, tails and wings. We will discuss other characteristics to sort and classify. We will also be reading fiction animal stories such as The 3 bears, The ugly duckling and poems about animals growing.

Writing: We will be writing 2 complete sentences. We begin by discussing our idea and charting it. We have shared our opinions to our buddies and aloud. We will write about our favorite fur animal. Then will write about our favorite winged animal and finally will write about our favorite animal with a tail. You should see these pieces coming home through out the week.

Sight word: play, one, two, three

Letter of the week: Ff

Math: We will continue practice counting by 5’s. We practice daily computation and problem solving skills. We will create order of daily events as a whole group. Finally we will create and continue patterns.

Social Studies: We will work on our very own time lines. We will also discuss our very first president George Washington. We will discuss Martin Luther King Jr.

Science: We will revisit our magnet investigation and discuss push and pull.

REMINDERS:

*Pizza kits fundraiser is coming home today. Please submit money directly to the office in the PTA mailbox.

*Late start Wednesday, January 14th- we still have library check out day

Ms. Mohamed