Unit 6: Neighborhoods

Reading: This week we will be learning all about a neighborhood and communities. We will read Russ and the Firehouse; Neighborhood Maps; In our Neighborhood; The Black Cat

Letters of the week: Ww, Xx

Sight word of the week: you

Word Family: -at (pat, sat, cat, rat, etc)

Spelling words: We will have our first spelling test this Friday, February 3rd. The list was sent home on Friday.

Below are the words:

mat

cat
pat

I

the

you

Writing: We will be writing a fun narrative that kind of looks like a comic strip. We will be working on creating a character and giving them speech balloons/bubbles. We will practice in the text Russ and the fire house. Then, we will continue to practice by creating an animal character in the neighborhood as a whole group. Next, the children will have a chance to create themselves as a character in a neighborhood and give them speech balloon.

Math: We will explore solid shapes. We will discuss faces, corners, sides and vertices. We will revisit the nickel. We will explore 2-d and 3-d shapes.

Social Studies: We will explore types of maps. We will explore parts of our neighborhood and create group neighborhood maps. We will explore a compose rose. We will learn that we are tiny things in this giant world. Specifically, we will be working on a project flip book that will state:

My Neighborhood-

• I live in Dearborn.
• I live on Michigan.
• I live in the United States of America.
• I live in North America.
• I live on Earth.

Happy Learning!

Ms. Mohamed