Dear Parents, January 13, 2014
Our reading strategy this week is summarizing and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is making generalizations. Paying attention to the beginning, middle, and end of the story will help us with summarizing and paying attention to the details can help us in making generalizations. Our phonics focus this week is on the long sound of /a/ in the CVCe pattern – consonant, vowel, consonant, final (silent) e. (Words such as cake, made, late). We are also working on the soft sound of /c/ (as in face) and /g/ (as in cage). We will be taking a look at word endings: ng, nk, and nd and we will also review the consonant digraphs, th, wh, sh, ch, and tch. Our spelling words are from unit 20 and follow the CVCe pattern for the long sound of /a/. Our grammar focus this week is on determining whether a sentence is a telling, asking, or exclamatory sentence.
In math we will be practicing our math fact habits and making tens. We will be taking our test on Thursday.
In science we will begin discussion about the costal environment. On Friday permission slips went home for our upcoming field trip with kindergarten and second grade. This will give us a great opportunity to see a bit of the costal environment while learning about the butterflies present in the grove.
In social studies we will continue with our lessons on community life with a focus on community leaders this week.
In religion we will be discussing how we care for ourselves from our Family Life series.
Reminders for the week:
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
- Wednesday is $1.00 free dress.
- Thursday assembly at 11:15
- Friday is Primary Centers, a noon dismissal day, and the beginning of a three-day weekend!! (No school on Monday January 20th!)
- It’s All About… Gabriella this week. Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week!
Ms. Manning
