Unit: Food
Reading: We will be reading Apple Farmer Annie; The Goat and the Chile Patch; Pizza Please.
Strategies:
- Sequence of events
- Summarize
- Segmenting sounds: stretching out words in isolation
- Letter identification and sound
- Recognizing sight words in text
- Ask and answer questions in a story and of unfamiliar words
- Spacing between words
Letters of the Week: Hh, Vv (Review letters Aa, Mm, Pp, Tt, Ss, Ii, Bb, Rr)
Sight words of the week: to, eat, food
Writing: Informational continued: Strategy focus: Spacing between words. To aide with this, we will create Mr./Ms. Spaceman/woman. We will write about things we can eat. Our sentence stem will be: We can eat ___. We like to eat ___.
Math: Introduction of the number line. Adding and subtracting by one on the number line. We will create a giant number line where we physically move our bodies on the number line. Then we will use cards to create a number line. Eventually we will use a standard number line and practice hopping/jumping adding one or subtract one. We will review graphs and we will continue number writing and identifying numbers 0-40.
Social Studies: We will learn about goods and services, ways to trade and how we learn from the past. We will also learn how we use the world around us/environment to get what we need.
- Examples of goods: cupcake, toys, i-pad, food, house, fridge etc.
- Examples of services: barber, teacher, doctor, vet, baker etc.
- Example of trade: money for services, money for goods, ie. cookies for chips , crayons for color pencils etc.
- How we learn from the past: by looking at photos, computer research, reading books etc.
- How we use the environment to get what we need: vegetables from a garden to make food, trees to make paper-house-furniture etc.
Reminders:
- Wednesday, December 7th- Holiday Boutique.
- Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather. It is getting colder. Lots of layers are ideal. It is easier to take a layer off, than to call for additional clothing.
- We are in need of snack. Please donate if you can.
Thank you and have a fantastic week!
Ms. Mohamed