March is reading Month is rolling along. I have a sign up schedule available for parents to come in and read to our class. Time slots are 9:00-9:15 or 3:00-3:15. Please stop in and sign up. Then choose a book from home (perhaps a favorite of your child’s books) and we’ll enjoy your story.
To encourage reading, Howard students are participating in a required number of minutes each week for reading. K-2 are required to read for 120 minutes each week. As students complete the required number of minutes each week, I will place a “paw print” (to go with our “WILD ABOUT READING” THEME) on a book posted outside my room. I will be using our READ TO SELF/READ TO SOMEONE time for the required reading minutes. Of course, I’m sure you will continue with daily reading at home. WOW-lots of reading!
Reminders-Wednesday is LATE START. Check the lunch menu on Tuesday because I will be taking lunch count on Tuesday for both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Wednesday is LIBRARY DAY. Tuesday night have your child pack the backpack for Wednesday. Have them put in their Library Book, shoes, any homework, Journal, etc. They can handle the responsibility and it helps them with Organizational Skills.
Here’s our week…
READING-Week 3 of Unit 7 “How Weather Affects us” is our theme. We will discuss characters and their actions (verbs) in stories. We will review our letters and words for this unit-what and this do for you E e B b L l.
WRITING-We will review chunks ed ad am an ap at As you read with your child, have them find these words and chunks in words. Reading practice like this helps with Accuracy and Fluency, which are important components of reading. We will also be writing sentences with several action (verbs) in them. Of course we will compare texts (stories) that we read during the week. I’m always checking and assessing Comprehension when we retell stories, By the way, last Friday I taught them about syllables and that each syllable has a vowel in it. We checked it out all day. Pretty awesome concept for 5-6 year olds!!
MATH & SCIENCE-We will be making a graph about weather and also taking a survey. We’ll also be using the calculators. We’ll be doing some skip counting by 2’s. They really enjoy those calculators! Number Families and Story Problems using Subtraction will be in this week’s Math. They know to start with the BIGGEST NUMBER when you subttract. They are also getting quite comfortable with fact families, without using fingers. They don’t even get confused with 0 as one of the 3 numbers in the family.
(4,6,10) (0,7,7)
4+6=10 7+0=7
6+4=10 0+7=7
10-6=4 7-0=7
SOCIAL STUDIES-We will continue with our unit “WHO AM I?’ We’ll explore a map and a globe. (I’ll work in temperature with that too.) We’ll check out our flag of THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA. Of course, we begin each morning with The Pledge of Allegiance and the Howard School Pledge.
I’m looking forward to another week of learning, growing, and having a great time together!
Mrs. Smith
10-4=6 7-7=0
MATH
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