Reading: We will explore different genres and begin to identify them. We will be reading different types of fairy tales. This week will focus on The three little pigs, Rumplestiltskin, Goldilocks and the three bears. We will also practice comprehension skills such as: retelling sequence, identifying the morale/lesson of the story, identifying the problem and the solution. Key text features on what a fairytale entails:

• It is a make believe story
• It begins with once upon a time
• Ends with happily ever after
• There is magic
• Characters: kings, queens, prince, princesses, animals that speak
• Settings: kingdoms, forests
• Lesson to be learned
• Good overcomes evil

Spelling: big, dig, pig, jump, one

Word family: (-ig: pig, dig, wig, jig, zig, twig, big, fig, rig, etc)

Sight words: jump, one

Writing: This week will be focusing on a narrative.  Students will have to choose an important or significant event in their lives to share and use narrative anchor chart to guide in their writing. Ideas we learned about narrative include:

• It is a real story
• It has a beginning, middle, end
• Use transitions: first, next, last/finally
• Make sure your story makes sense
• Make sure your writing matches your picture
• Don’t forget the title
• Basic mechanics: capitalize the first letter of the sentence, space between your words, spell sight words correctly

Math: We are learning about volume and capacity. We will compare the volume inside of objects and identify items that take up more, less or equal volume/capacity. We will also start learning about area and base ten blocks and how to make and build them from numbers presented. Students should be able to write numbers 0-100.

Social Studies: We are studying Geography. Its all about learning about maps and the key parts to reading a map which include: the map key, buildings, roads/streets, compass, flat map and globe. We will learn how to use google maps and how small we are in the real world.

HOMEWORK:

homework 2-26

REMINDERS:

• Curriculum Night Wednesday, February 26th from 5:00-6:30.  Please join us!
• March is reading month starts this Thursday. Letters will be coming home along with calendar. Every week your child will be required to hand in a reading ticket with the amount of reading minutes signed by you- the parent. I will post the entire March is reading month info later this week.
• We are running low on snacks, any donations are appreciated!

Thank you for your support as always!

Ms. Mohamed