READING: Sunflower House; Anasi and the melon; Poem-In my garden, Mary Mary Quite Contrary;  The rabbit and the elephant

STRATEGY OF THE WEEK: Making connections-self to text connections: This story reminds me of ___.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS: s-blends- st-, sm-, sp-, sk-

SPELLING: as, pot, got, not, rot, forgot, spot, trot

WRITING: Informational descriptive writing- students will pick a specific flower and describe how it looks like. A __ is a flower. It is a plant. It has _(big/small/many/few)__ petals. etc.

MATH: graphing- we will explore, create and analyze graphs. Focus will be on bar graphs and pictographs.

SCIENCE: Continue to observe and document growth of our sunflower.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will introduce Earth Day. We will identify an issue that is happening on Earth and come up with ideas to help save the Earth. Topics we may cover:

• types of pollution: air, land, water
• the 3 R’s- recycle, reduce, reuse
• saving the Earth’s water

Have a wonderful week!

-Ms. Mohamed