Cant believe its the last week of school for 2016! After this week, we will meet as 2017 students! The time is flying!
Week 3: Review week
Reading: We will be reading multiple winter and holiday stories. We will discuss our favorite books and parts.
Letters of the Week: Ff, Gg
Sight words of the week: help, make -SIGHT WORD TEST THIS WEEK!!!
Writing: We will be writing an informational piece on what we can help make. We can help make a snowman. We can help make a gingerbread house. etc… Please practice writing sentences using the sight words we have learned so far.
Math: We will continue number recognition 0-50. We will continue practice counting by 10’s to 100. We will learn to count by 5’s to 100. We will explore simple subtraction by 1 or 2. We will practice subtraction with our fingers, pictures, manipulatives and math tools (number line, number chart, ten frames, base ten blocks and calculators).
Science: We are learning about motion and how objects of different shapes move. A sphere rolls, a cylinder rolls and slides, a rectangle/square/cube slides. We will explore using real life 3-d objects and record our findings. We will also discuss what is a force, what is gravity and which way gravity pulls. Last week we discussed push and pull and worked on a sort. Your child came home with stuff they worked on and also observed how certain objects move.
Social Studies: Your child is being tested this week on what is a trade, need, want, good, service and ways to learn about the past.
REMINDERS
- Late Start: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 report to school at 9:35
- Last day of school this week is Friday, December 23, 2016
- School will resume on Monday, January 9th, 2017
- Your child was given some work today to work on over the break. I gave it out early, so turn it in Tuesday, January 10th.
Have a great week!
Ms. Mohamed