Review week: Weather and Seasons

Reading: we will be reading fiction and non-fiction stories this week called: Bears snores on; Bear wants more; All about Bears, Animals in winter.

Focus vocabulary: hibernation, migration

Strategy:

• Comparing stories and collecting reall information
• making a text to self connection
• making a text to text connection
• retell the a story (first, next, then, last)
• Identify problem and solution

Spelling: sun, bun, run, fun, up, it, is, in, help

Phonics: short u; CVC words practice with our word families

• sight word test coming up
• Letter identification and their sound test coming up

Grammar:

• nouns (review)
• verbs (review)
• adjectives (new this week)
• homophones (review)
• antonyms/opposites (new this week)
• rhymes (review)

Writing: we will be writing a non-fiction book or writing  piece about bears. We will create a thinking map, KWL chart and a tree chart to guide in this process. Sentence stems will be: Bears are ___. Bears can____. Bears have ____. Each child is expected to write 3 sentences independently.

Math: we will continue to practice addition, subtraction, counting backward and comparing numbers 0-10. We will also explore making 2 digit numbers using base ten blocks (tens and ones).

Social Studies: we will be having a social studies test this week about maps, globes, positional words (next to, up, down, above, below, under), sequence of a story (beginning, middle, end), regions in a classroom or a school ( i.e. What does a playground contain?, what does a lunchroom contain?,  what does a classroom contain?).

Reminders:

• Late start on Wednesday, March 15th
• Parent reader updated schedule is up. Sign up!
• I will be testing sight words we have learned thus far
• I will also be testing letters and their sounds

Ms. Mohamed