Fall season is officially here! The leaves are changing and the weather is cooler. It feels great!
We continue our unit in week 2:
Theme: Families get together-
Essential questions: What can families do together?
What are some things that you do with your family?
Reading: We will read stories: The Picnic at the Apple Park (Fiction), Night Animals (Non-fiction), Squeaky old bed (Folktale), and The Rabbit and the Coyote (Non-fiction).
C.A.F.E. Strategies:
- Comprehension-predictions, setting
- Accuracy-Rhyming, identify first sound in a word
- Fluency- recognizing upper/lower case letters, recognizing sight words
- Expanding Vocabulary- Identifying the front/back cover, know to read/write from left to right.
Letter of the week: Aa
Sight words: The, the (I, can, we)
Writing: We will be forming the letters we have learned correctly. We will also continue practicing to write a sentence using the sight words and drawing pictures.
Math: We’ll be using 10 Frames- a rectangle with 5 boxes on the top row and 5 boxes underneath. For example, we’ll put tokens in 4 boxes and decide how many more we would need to make 10. 4 + ? = 10.
Science: We’ll be exploring the 5 Senses. Monday we’ll start with “Touch.”
Social Studies: We will continue to work on Classroom Routines and Working Well With Each Other.
REMINDERS-
WEDNESDAY IS LATE START. Students will come to school 1 hour later (9:35 am). Dismissal is regular time (3:35). Teachers will be in a Professional Development Meeting.
Have a wonderful week!
-Ms. Mohamed