Week 2: Unit 6: Neighborhoods 

Reading: This week we will continue learning all about a neighborhood and community helpers. We will read Bus Stops; The park; Ms. Mouse needs a friend; Acrefoot the Mailman

Letters of the week: Ee, Yy

Sight word of the week: said, yes

Word Family: -an (man, can, fan, etc..)

Spelling words: We will have our second spelling test this Friday, February 10th.  The list was sent home last week.

Below are the words:

man

can

fan

go

to

yes

said

Writing: We will be writing a narrative. We will be working on writing sentences to our speech balloon characters we created last week. We will discuss the importance of using quotation marks when a character speaks. The sentence will look like: “Meow!” said the cat.

Math: We will explore the dime. We will discuss its value and count by 10’s. We will also exchange the dime with nickels and pennies. We will try to count the amount of coins and write its value in cents.

Social Studies: We will continue to 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 continue working on the 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.

Science: We will explore land forms. Please discuss what each of the land forms listed below:

mountain

river

ocean

plain

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed