Archive | December 2015

Happy Holidays!

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Lots of singing and tons of celebration! Hope everyone has a great holiday and Happy New Year!!

Ms. Mohamed

Week of December 14th

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

SKILLMAKING 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-

  • Please send in $5 as the monetary donation for the holiday party, if you have not done so. You may give it to me or the homeroom moms. They are working real hard to prepare something special for the children.
  • Last day of school will be Friday, December 18th, 2015 for the Winter Break. We will return to school January 4th, 2016.

-Ms. Mohamed

 

Two notes coming home today

Be on the look out:

  1. Another copy of your Parent Connect letter is coming.
  2. PTA Lock in Party information coming home. It scheduled for Friday, December 11, 2015

Have a great day!

Week of December 7th

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:

  • Comprehension: Review character and setting. Retelling the story (Beginning, middle, end), asking questions and sequencing
  • Accuracy: Identify the first sound in a word and the last sound in a word, and medial sounds in the word. Identifying a CVC (constant-vowel-constant) pattern (ie. pat, pit, pin), producing and expanding rhymes
  • Fluency: Recognize upper/lower case letters and sight words
  • Expanding Vocabulary: Reading from left to right, Reading from top to bottom, Read from the left page and move to the right page. Know return sweep when reading /writing a sentence, punctuation (period, question, exclamation mark), Author, Illustrator

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

  • There will be a letter coming home for our Holiday celebration from the homeroom moms. There are requesting a monetary donation to help with the cost of the celebration. Refer to the letter for more information.
  • The scheduled holiday boutique shopping is for Wednesday, December 9. If you would like your child to participate, each item sold is for $2. Refer to the PTA letter sent last week.

Thanks for your support!

-Ms. Mohamed

Week of December 1st

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