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Lots of singing and tons of celebration! Hope everyone has a great holiday and Happy New Year!!
Ms. Mohamed
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Lots of singing and tons of celebration! Hope everyone has a great holiday and Happy New Year!!
Ms. Mohamed
We cannot believe the weather we are getting in December! Hope everyone is going out and enjoying 50’s and 60’s before the real winter hits!
REVIEW WEEK:
READING-We are reading winter stories (Sneezy the Snowman, A Snowy Day, The Big Snowball)
STRATEGY-SUMMARIZE
SKILL–MAKING INFERENCES
WRITING– We are writing all about snowmen. We will write sentences describing our snowmen we will create. Our sentence stem is:
My snowman can have ____.
LETTERS-C c N n (Review week)
WORDS-Have have To to (Review week)
GRAMMAR-We’ll explore Opposites (also known as ANTONYMS)
MATH- We are practice counting 0-50. We are continuing to count by 10’s to 100 and counting by 5’s to 100. We are also discussing time passing using terms: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
SCIENCE- Reviewing motion. Key vocabulary: spin, rotate, roll, slide (we even talked about gravity last week 🙂 ) We will discuss the winter season.
SOCIAL STUDIES- We are exploring time lines. Please send in a baby picture of your child.
REMINDERS-
-Ms. Mohamed
Be on the look out:
Have a great day!
Can you believe we only have 2 weeks before winter break???? We only have 23 days until 2016! Wow!!!
Literacy Unit: What’s for dinner?
Reading: We will be reading Our special Potato Pie; Little Juan and the cooking pot; Grandfather Bear is hungry; and Crunch Munch Thanks a Bunch.
We will create a menu sorting appetizers, meals, drinks and desserts. We will practice ordering from the menu. There will be a lot of role playing restaurant. (Note: Next time you go to a restaurant with your family, practice ordering from the menu (most menus are online now) with your child. When you get there, your child could place their own order. You will see the sense of accomplishment and pride beam from your child).
Strategies:
Letter of the week: Cc (review the previous letters learned)
Sight word: have (Review: I, can, we, the, like, a, see, go, to, am)
Writing: We will order from a class created menu and write it out. Our whole group writing comes home Tuesday. Our individualized draft is created Wednesday. We revise/edit on Thursday. We publish on Friday. We will have a question or a complete sentence or both. Our sentence stems are:
Can I have____ and ___?
I will have ____ and ___.
Math: We will be working on lines of symmetry, 2d-3d shapes, identifying numbers 0-40 and counting by 10’s and 5’s to 100. We will also practice combinations of 6 (0,6; 1,5; 2,4; 3,3) using a ten frame, a reknrek, an abacus and scatter mats.
Science: We will be investigating motion. We will be identifying items that push and pull. We will describe how they move: roll or slide. We will also discuss how 3-d shapes move (ie. cylinder-rolls straight, prism/pyramids/cube-slides, cone-rolls in a circle form,
Social Studies: We will be having a social studies assessment this week. We will be assessing needs, wants, goods, service, trade/exchange.
REMINDERS
Thanks for your support!
-Ms. Mohamed
Congratulations to the students of the month of November:
Maya Elsayed
Jenna Mahdi
Keep up the great work!!!!!
Welcome back!
READING-Our theme for the next 3 weeks, Unit 4, is FOOD.
This week’s focus will be Where Food Comes From.
The stories we will read are Pizza Please, Apple Farmer Annie, and The goat and the chile patch.
READING STRATEGY-(Comprehension): Summarize
READING SKILL-Sequence of Events
WORD-(Fluency) To to
LETTER(Fluency)- N n
GRAMMAR: nouns, verbs
WRITING: We will be writing a sentence using nouns and verbs. We will use most of the sight words we have learned to connect with foods from the story. Our sentence stem is: I go to the farm to see Annie____.
MATH-We will continue working up and down the number line with > < a given number. We will also roll and record using dice. We will graph our numbers.
We will also work with Creating and Extending a Pattern.
Home activity-Practice with > < a given number. You don’t need any paper or pencil. Ask, “What is a number > than 11?” “A number 3 more than 16?”
Also, do some Interrupted Counting/Alphabet “Give me the next 3 letters after L?” “Next 3 numbers after 42?”
SOCIAL STUDIES-We will finish up Goods and Services, Needs and Wants. I will be assessing them next week on these concepts. We will also connect these ideas of how food goes from the farm to our table.
-Ms. Mohamed