Unit 2: Friends-What is a Friend?

Essential Questions: What is a friend and what can you do with friends?

Reading: We will be reading stories and poems such as: Friends All Around; Games Around the World; Making Friends; The Fight; The Lion and the Mouse.

Strategies:

• Beginning and end sound of a word
• Sight word identification within a story or sentences
• Asking questions about a story before reading
• Responding to questions in a story
• Making connections to a story read

Sight Word of the Week: “A” pronounced as “ah”

Letter of the Week: Pp

Writing: We will continue to write our opinions and why. We will focus on games we like to play with friends. This week we will create a thinking map of a game and the following week we will write using the map we created. Sentence stem: I like ___because___.

Math: We will revisit shapes, counting to 20, counting using base ten blocks. We will discuss how many tens and ones within the tricky teens. Please make sure your child can count and write to 20. Make sure they can count objects to 20 and they tap as they count. We will also discuss 2d-3d shapes.

Science: Pumpkin Investigation. We will explore ideas about pumpkins and understand how they grow, discuss how they look and feel like, compare them to other pumpkins, what we can do with pumpkins and how they relate to the fall season. We will eventually make predictions of what is inside a pumpkin, open it up, feel the insides of a pumpkin and count seeds.

REMINDERS:

• We will have a half day Friday, November 4th.
• Parent Teacher conferences are coming up. Please be on the look out for a reminder note and sign and return please. If the time does not work for you, please let me know so I can reschedule a time for you.
• Parent Teacher conference times are as follows:
  • Thursday, November 10th
  • Wednesday, November 16th
  • Thursday, November 17th
• Reading Log for October is due. If you lost the sheet to record books, write the books read for October on a piece of paper.

Have fun and be safe Trick or Treating today!

Ms. Mohamed

Happy Monday!

New Literacy Unit: Friends

Reading: We will be reading What do you like?; Foods I like; Friends follow rules; Little Red Hen; and Games Around the World

STRATEGIES:

• Beginning, middle, end of a story
• Characters, setting
• Sounding out words-stretch it out
• Beginning and end sounds
• Return sweep
• Respond to questions in a story
• Clap words in a sentence

Sight Word of the Week: Like

Letter of the Week: Ss

Writing: We will continue writing our opinion. Again, Opinion is what we think about something. This week we are pushing inventive spelling. Here are some tips: Stretch out the word.  Say it slowly. Write each letter you hear. Your child may not hear the vowels sounds yet but that is o.k.. We are trying to transfer the letters they do know to writing. The key is to be patient. You may noticed your child came home with an alphabet anchor chart. Practice the letters, letter sound and thing that begins with that letter. for example Aa /a/ apple, as a part of your daily reading. This will ingrain the the letter and sound for your child as a daily practice. For those who do know the the letter and letter sound, I sent home a blends and digraphs anchor chart.

Opinion Writing sentence stem this week: I like ____ because____.

Math: We are practicing writing numbers 1-20. We are working specifically on tricky teens. Make sure your child is is writing 14 not 41;  15 not 51 etc.. Here is a chant that will help remember the order of writing the numbers.

1 and 1 make 11 fun,

1 and a 2 tell 12 what to do,

1 and a 3 tell 13 climb a tree,

1 and a 4 tell 14 shut the door,

1 and a 5 keep 15 alive,

1 and a 6 tell 16 pick up sticks,

1 and a 7 send 17 to heaven,

1 and a 8 makes 18 great,

1 and a 9 keep 19 in line

2 and a 0 makes 20 a hero!

We are also highlighting that:

• 11 is one ten and 1 one
• 12 is one ten and 2 ones
• 13 is one ten and 3 ones
• 14 is one ten and 4 ones
• 15 is one ten and 5 ones
• 16 is one ten and 6 ones
• 17 is one ten and 7 ones
• 18 is one ten and 8 ones
• 19 is one ten and 9 ones
• 20 is 2 tens

We are also going to discuss 2d and 3d shapes. We will also take about how 2 shapes can make on bigger shape. For example, 2 triangles can make 1 square.  6 triangles can make a hexagon.  2 trapezoids make a hexagon.

Social Studies: Students will review what rules are and draw and write one rule down.

Science: We will continue our fall investigation. We will create a fall book to report our findings.

REMINDERS:

• Friday, October 28th is the Halloween Parade at 1:30 weather permitting. Please refer to last blog post for Parade details.
• If your scheduled to bring something for the Halloween celebration, drop it off in the morning!

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Fall investigation: We went on a fall walk and collected leaves, twigs and acorns. The students made observations and drew what they observed during a fall walk in their science journals. Below are pics:

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Mohamed

Amazing thing was that the students still continued to do their writing during the power outage! Talk about determination!! I’m so proud of them. Check out Seesaw to see your child’s work. 

Ms. Mohamed

Wow! What a fast week! We have done so much amazing things this week. We also lost a bit of power, but learning continued as usual. Tomorrow will be Spaghetti lunch because we missed that choice today.

Literacy Unit: Review Week

Reading: We read multiple stories about families: Peter’s Chair; Family Fun; Jennifer Bing Why Won’t Sing? Tio attends Rooster’s Wedding; Harry the Dirty Dog

Letter and Sight Word Review: I, can, the, we, Aa, Mm

Writing: I introduced Opinion Writing this week. Opinion is what we think about something. We started by choosing foods we like and discussed why. We then shifted to which book we liked. First, students were instructed to choose a book they liked and explained why. Next they draw the picture on the top half of the page. Then, they wrote the sentence I like the book _(title)__. If your child found this easy, I instructed them to write a sentence stem stating their opinion and why. I like the book _(title)__ because___.  We will practice more next week, but try this at home for more practice.

Math: We are covering shapes, shapes and more shapes. We cut out shapes to create a spider and pumpkins. We drew shapes and assembled them to create a simple picture based on oral directions. Each direction that was given was attached to directional or positional words. Draw a triangle on top of a square. Now you have a shape of a house etc.. We also wrote numbers 1-20. Some were able to do this without a problem and some friends struggled. Please practice.

Science: we covered a fall investigation. We conducted our fall walk and collected some Fall data. Your child came home with a Fall thinking map. Here are some key points to review with your child:

• days are shorter, nights are longer
• hibernation
• harvest time
• football season
• school starts
• leaves change color
• the weather is getting colder
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving

Social Studies: We are still teaching cooperation and respect. We are emphasizing on working as a community that works, learns and plays together. I am testing them about the classroom rules and why they are important. Here are the rule for you to review with your child:

• I can keep my hands to myself. (so I am not hurting my friends)
• I can raise my hand and wait to be called on. (so I am being respectful to the teacher and not interrupting)
• I can sit criss cross apple sauce with hands in my basket.  ( So people behind me can see and my fingers don’t get hurt)
• Say nice things or don’t say anything at all. (So you don’t hurt someones feelings)
• Treat others like you want to be treated. (being fair, have friends, respecting others)

Important Info about Lunch:

Looking Ahead:

• Halloween Parade is scheduled for Friday October 28th. A few notes to keep in mind:
  • It starts at 1:30. Your invited to watch your child walk around the track with the rest of the school as long as it doesn’t rain.
  • Please send your child with their costume in a bag and we will dress them after lunch. Do not send your child dressed in their costume, they will dirty it at lunch.
  • If you want to take your child home and dress them yourself, you may pick up your child at lunch time, feed them at home, dress them and return them by 12:30.
• Halloween celebration is also scheduled for the same day but it is only for the kindergarten children. If your assigned to bring in anything, drop it off in the morning. If you would like to send in candy to pass out, send that with your child in the morning as well.

Have a Fabulous Weekend!

Ms. Mohamed

Flyer attached:

-Ms. Mohamed

Week 2 of our Families Unit: Families work together

Reading: We will read The Picnic at the Apple Park ; Night Aminals; Squeaky Old Bed; The Big Red Barn

Strategies:

• Identify the characters, setting
• Identify Front/Back cover, Title, Spine of a book
• Identify the beginning and the end of the story
• Answer comprehension questions in a story (who, when, why, what happened)

Letter of the week: Aa

Sight word of the week: The, the

Writing: Students will draw and write a personal narrative on what they do with their families

Sentence stem: We ___.

Math: We will practice writing numbers 0-10 for those who are struggling. We will also manipulate the amount in groups to identify what makes a group of ten. ie. 3+7=10, 8+2=10 etc.. We will also explore shapes in our everyday lives. We will use the magazines to sort shapes into groups of circle, square, rectangle and triangle. ie. pizza can be circle or triangle

Science: We will explore the fall season. Essential questions include:

What happens in the weather?

What happens to the animals?

What happens to the plants/trees?

Lots of observations will be made and data collecting will occur in their science journals.

Social Studies: Its all about cooperation and working together. Practice and role model how to take turns and solving a problem if we don’t agree!

Reminder:

*Friday, October 14th is a half day. No lunch will be served. Dismissal is at 11:45

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Scientist in action collecting information in their science journals 📓. Students recorded many objects in their everyday lives they see, smell, touch, hear and taste.  

This is the second component to Daily 5. This is where students are given the opportunity to read with a partner. Students sit elbow to elbow and knee to knee. There is a book in the middle so both can see 😀

Below are few pictures to see this in action: