Unit 3: Getting Around Town
Reading: We will be reading A Bus For Us; Ways to Travel; The Turtle and the Rabbit; How Partridges Built their Canoes
Strategies:
- Sequencing stories: Identifying the beginning, middle & end
- Identifying beginning and end sounds of a word.
- Stretching out a word to listen and identify letters within a word
- Identifying when to use a period. (Not at the end of a line)
- Spacing between words
Letter of the Week: Tt
Sight word of the Week: See
Writing: We will introduce Informational writing. It is writing that gives us information. The focus this time around will be description. We will name the topic (which is a type of vehicle) and write a description (color and/or size). The sentence stem: I see a ___. It is ___.
Math: We will introduce the pan balance. We will discuss greater or less than. We will be introduced to non-standard measurement using cubes or other manipulatives to practice what measuring looks like. Practice number 1-30 (or higher).
Social Studies: We will discuss what people need to survive: food, water, shelter, clothes etc.
REMINDERS:
- Picture Retakes are scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th.
- Late Start is Wednesday, November 16th. School will start one hour later at 9:30.
- Our school is collecting food for the needy and less fortunate. Last day to collect would be Monday, November 21.
- There will be no school Wednesday, November 23 to Friday, November 25 due to Holiday. School will resume on Monday, November 28th.
Have a great week!
Ms. Mohamed