I hope everyone had a relaxing Thanksgiving break and had fun with your family. It is hard to believe that December will be here Friday!

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday, November 29 – Picture retakes. If you want to have your child have their picture retaken, please return their original picture packet for ordering.

Peek at the Week:

Letters of the Week – Rr and Qq   Sight words – on    color words – red, yellow, blue

Writing – We will focus on informational writing and learn about transportation.We will also learn about adjectives and use adjectives in our writing pieces.

Math – We will end our unit on Tally Marks. For practice at home students can write numbers 1-20 and practice writing tally marks with each number. We will start looking at number bonds and finding the missing number 1+ _=3  in an equation. Learning double addition facts (2+2=4   3+3=6) and concentrating on addition sentences and multiple ways to make a number for example; combinations of 5 –   2+3=5   3+2=5   1+4=5   4+1=5  0+5=5   5+0=5.

Science – Weather unit – studying severe weather.

Social Studies – We will focus on wants and understand the difference between needs and wants. Needs are things we need to survive; clothing, water, food, shelter, air. Wants are things we do not need to survive but would like to have; toys, candy, phone.

Daily Five – Producing rhymes and focusing on beginning sounds and ending sounds in words. Learning to stretch letter sounds in words in reading and writing.

Have a peaceful Sunday!

Mrs. Polgar