Week 24 Highlights!

What a short and sweet week!

During our Shared Reading, we focused on the poem, Money, Money, Money, to explore letters, sounds, rhyming words, and print concepts.  We reviewed snap words this week such as a, is, in, my, and to.  Please practice identifying, reading, and writing our sight words with your child at home.

In Reader's Workshop, we continued our third unit, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles.  This week, we focused on checking our reading.  When reading a challenging word in a book we need to think does this make sense, does it is sound right, and does it look right?  We also learned that as books become harder, we need new kinds of picture and snap word power.  Take a peek at our partner readers using extra strength reading super powers!

Our Read Alouds of the week were Duck for President by Doreen Cronin and Grace for President by Kelly Dipucchio.  We discussed character, setting, and main event using our weekly texts.  Please ask your child to compare and contrast our fictions stories. 

During Daily Five word work stations this week, we played Sort It, Color, It, Roll and Read It, and Spin It with our snap words.  We continue to explore phonics skills using our Word Sorts.  We also practiced our phonemic awareness skills using Lexia on the iPad.  We practiced labeling and creating lists at the writing table.  Please ask your child what was their favorite Daily Five station this week.

This week during Writer's Workshop, we completed the third bend in our how-to writing unit.  This week we focused on added books to our how-to collections.  We also created an introduction and conclusion to a book of choice.  We can't wait to share our how-to collections with you in the next couple of weeks!

We continue to practice lowercase letter writing in our Handwriting curriculum.  We introduced correct letter formation for lowercase letters k, y, and j.  Please review our uppercase letter, number, and lowercase magic c letters with your child at home.

In Whole Group Math, we continue to explore number pairs, decomposing, and composing numbers in the fourth module in our Eureka Math curriculum.  This week's focus was reading and writing equations using word problems.  We reviewed the math symbols plus, minus, and equals.  We also introduced math sprints!

This week during Math Tubs, we began a new round of tubs.  Our rotation will focus on number writing, teen numbers, subitizing, one-to-one correspondence, manipulating 100 objects, and basic addition to 10.  Please ask your child what their favorite math tub was this week!

On Friday afternoon, we began our STEM Tubs.  Over the next few weeks, we will use different materials to construct a bridge.  We will discuss the properties of the materials, collaborate to plan how to build a bridge, predict if the bridge will hold, and build a structure. 

Upcoming Dates

February 23rd--Irving School Fun Fair--11:00am-2:00pm

March 15th--Report Cards go home

March 19th--Field Trip to TheaterWorks Pete the Cat--more information to come!

March 25-29--SPRING BREAK!