Cant believe its the last week of school for 2016! After this week, we will meet as 2017 students! The time is flying!

Week 3: Review week

Reading: We will be reading multiple winter and holiday stories. We will discuss our favorite books and parts.

Letters of the Week: Ff, Gg

Sight words of the week: help, make -SIGHT WORD TEST THIS WEEK!!!

Writing: We will be writing an informational piece on what we can help make. We can help make a snowman. We can help make a gingerbread house. etc… Please practice writing sentences using the sight words we have learned so far.

Math: We will continue number recognition 0-50. We will continue practice counting by 10’s to 100. We will learn to count by 5’s to 100. We will explore simple subtraction by 1 or 2. We will practice subtraction with our fingers, pictures, manipulatives and math tools (number line, number chart, ten frames, base ten blocks and calculators).

Science: We are learning about motion and how objects of different shapes move. A sphere rolls, a cylinder rolls and slides, a rectangle/square/cube slides. We will explore using real life 3-d objects and record our findings. We will also discuss what is a force, what is gravity and which way gravity pulls. Last week we discussed push and pull and worked on a sort. Your child came home with stuff they worked on and also observed how certain objects move.

Social Studies: Your child is being tested this week on what is a trade, need, want, good, service and ways to learn about the past.

REMINDERS

• Late Start: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 report to school at 9:35
• Last day of school this week is Friday, December 23, 2016
• School will resume on Monday, January 9th, 2017
• Your child was given some work today to work on over the break. I gave it out early, so turn it in Tuesday, January 10th.

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Unit: FOOD- What’s for Dinner?

Reading: We will be reading Our special potato pie; Grandfather bear is hungry; Little Juan and the cooking pot; Poems: Crusty corn bread; Crunch Munch

Strategies:

• Identify the problem and a solution of a story
• Retell in sequence, summarize
• Ask and answering questions about stories
• Blend and segment sounds
• Spacing between words
• Recognizing letters and their sounds
• Recognizing sight words being read

Letters of the week: Cc, Nn

Sight words: have, will (Sight word Test coming up the week of December 19th) Below is the sight words your child needs to know before break:

Writing: We are creating a class menu! Please send in sample menu for kids to explore and get ideas if you have any laying around. We will then role play and write their orders. They need to order a main dish and a drink. Sentence stem will be: I will have___. I will have ____.

Math: We will practice writing 1-50. We will continue to practice what addition looks like and we will practice ways to add and group. We will practice counting on instead of of counting from the beginning. Please practice addition using hands, utensils toys etc.. We will introduce the calculator and how to add using a calculator.

Science: Physical Science begins! We will discuss the position of objects and the shape of objects. We will discuss how these ideas effect the way they move (motion). We will also discuss push and pull.

Coming up:

• PTA is sponsoring a movie night on Friday, December 16th from 6:00-8:00

Ms. Mohamed

Students created their very own veggie pizzas as a part of our food unit. They identified the ingredients and the process of creating their very own personal pizza! Below are pics:

We explored a giant numberline and practiced by adding one or two more by hopping on it. We also created a small numberline to take home to practice the same concept. Examples include: start at 2 and add 1. What did you land on? Your child should say 3. We also practiced the same idea of adding using a number chart.

Unit: Food

Reading: We will be reading Apple Farmer Annie; The Goat and the Chile Patch; Pizza Please.

Strategies: 

• Sequence of events
• Summarize
• Segmenting sounds: stretching out words in isolation
• Letter identification and sound
• Recognizing sight words in text
• Ask and answer questions in a story and of unfamiliar words
• Spacing between words

Letters of the Week: Hh, Vv (Review letters Aa, Mm, Pp, Tt, Ss, Ii, Bb, Rr)

Sight words of the week: to, eat, food

Writing: Informational continued: Strategy focus: Spacing between words. To aide with this, we will create Mr./Ms. Spaceman/woman. We will write about things we can eat. Our sentence stem will be: We can eat ___. We like to eat ___.

Math: Introduction of the number line. Adding and subtracting by one on the number line. We will create a giant number line where we physically move our bodies on the number line. Then we will use cards to create a number line. Eventually we will use a standard number line and practice hopping/jumping adding one or subtract one. We will review graphs and we will continue number writing and identifying numbers 0-40.

Social Studies: We will learn about goods and services, ways to trade and how we learn from the past. We will also learn how we use the world around us/environment to get what we need.

• Examples of goods: cupcake, toys, i-pad, food, house, fridge etc.
• Examples of services: barber, teacher, doctor, vet, baker etc.
• Example of trade: money for services, money for goods, ie. cookies for chips , crayons for color pencils etc.
• How we learn from the past: by looking at photos, computer research, reading books etc.
• How we use the environment to get what we need: vegetables from a garden to make food, trees to make paper-house-furniture etc.

Reminders:

• Wednesday, December 7th- Holiday Boutique.
• Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather. It is getting colder. Lots of layers are ideal. It is easier to take a layer off, than to call for additional clothing.
• We are in need of snack. Please donate if you can.

Thank you and have a fantastic week!

Ms. Mohamed

Congratulations to our students of the month of November:

Adam Boussi

Hani Harb

Great job and Keep up the great work!

Ms. Mohamed

Bryant Middle School is conducting a shoe collection drive from October 3-December 20, 2016 to raise funds to support a variety of school enrichment projects . Bryant will earn money based on the number of shoes collected as Funds2Orgs will purchase all of the donated pairs. Those dollars will benefit projects selected by Bryant staff and students. Anyone can help by donating gently worn, or new shoes. All donated shoes will be redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs network of microenterprise partners in developing nations. Funds2Orgs helps impoverished people start, maintain and grow businesses in countries such as Haiti, Honduras and other nations in Central America and Africa. Proceeds from the shoe sales are used to feed, clothe and house their families. One budding entrepreneur in Haiti even earned enough to send her son to law school. By donating shoes to Bryant’s Drive, the shoes will be given a second chance and make a difference in people’s lives. We would appreciate your support of our worthy cause. Our goal is 7,500 pairs of shoes.

Please help support Bryant by sending in new or gently used shoes by December 15th. Thank you!

Ms. Mohamed

We have been working on taking surveys on our favorite ice cream flavors and making a graph out of it. We then analyzed the graph. Which flavor is most liked? Which flavor is least liked? etc. Below are pics:

Note about the Holiday Boutique:

We are scheduled for purchasing on December 7th. If you like to purchase anything from there, everything is $2. It is sponsored by the PTA. Please make sure money or check is in an envelope labeled with your child’s name on it.

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Mohamed