Week of March 12^th-16th [week2]

LITERACY:

PHONICS

●      Continue to work on short /a/; /i/; /o/

●      A-Z reviewcontinued through the rest of the year (please review at home—simple questions such as, “what does desk start with? What does it end with?” This can really help with learning letter sounds!!)

●      Sounding out words (I have the kids help me spell whenever writing on the board)

SING AND SPELL

This week we continued to practice the following words:

●      New word:

●      Continuing words: they, he, she, that, you, here, are,  play, with, have, on, go,  my, to, me, is, the, see, like, in, I, in

READING/WRITING

·         Reading simple sentences using sight words (continued for the rest of the year):e.g.

I like to go to school.

HandwritingWithoutTearsWorkbook Continued

Handwriting: This week we continued to practice writing sentences using capital letters, periods and question marks.

Books: Clocks, Clocks and More Clocks

●      Songs: Sing and Spell songs

MATH:

●      Telling Time to the hour- we discussed the different hands of a clock- second, minute and hour hand. We also discussed a.m. and p.m.—before noon and after midnight. This concept was a bit difficult for many of them. However, they did a great job with telling time to the hour.

●      Calendar continued.

(Each day we practice sequencing, looking at the Date, Days of the week, Months of the year, and counting down how many days we have been in school.  We are also practicing place value; every day in school we add a straw to our box, each time we pass another ten days in school we bundle our counting straws in groups of 10.)

●      Counting and identifying numbers up through 20 cont.

●      Simple addition cont. - number charts, mental math, fingers, counters cont.

●      Simple subtraction cont.-number charts, using fingers/picture strategies

●      Simple word problems cont.-“I have 10 carrots to feed my rabbit. I give him one carrot for each day of the week. How many carrots do I have left?”

●      Math Center games continued

(The children explored some of the mathematical concepts we have be learning about through math centers using puzzles, pattern blocks, addition cards, &magnetic numbers.)

·         Understanding “How many more?”

Jan has 6 bananas, Paul has 3.  How many more bananas does Jan have than Paul?

·         Subtraction-mental math- simple equationsà 2-1=

●       ‘Plus 1’ / ‘1 Less’-continued (what is one more than 1? 2, etc.)

●      Concept of zero- revisited (please work on this with your child at home as well—“if I have 5 strawberries, and don’t eat any for snack, how many will I still have at lunch? This is like 5+0.”)

●      Counting by 10s, 5s, 2s

●      X+10=?-à 1+10=11, 2+10=12, etc.

●      Days of the Week, Months of the Year

Arts & Crafts / THEME:

●paper bag lions 

Special Activities

Eric Carle exhibit

Pizza day

PEEK AT NEXT WEEK

●    Theme:   Spring, animals

●      Phonics: short /o/ continued

●    Math: telling time, simple word problems, addition practice, and subtraction cont.

Words of the week: they, he, she, that, you, here, it, are, with, have, play, of, for, on, go, to, can, here, a, an, like, the, see, I, in, is, me

NOTES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reminders/

Additional info

Hello Tiger Parents,

Hope you had a great week. The field trip to the Eric Carle exhibit went very well. The kids really enjoyed the additional art craft as well. Don’t forget, next Monday is our trip to Shaker Art school. This is a free trip and a big thanks to Claire’s mom for sharing this with us! Please have your child wear their uniform on Monday if possible.

I have recently started to send home readers. Your kiddos are ready to read or already reading! I personally, am very excited to see them working so hard, and I know you all are as well. I will send books home on Tuesday and Friday. If I send the same book home a couple days in a row, it is because I feel that we need just a bit more practice. Here are some pointers for reading at home:

-ask your child about what’s going on in the pictures

-ask them to make predictions- “what do you think will happen next?”

-ask them ‘why’—“why do you think x happened? Why do you think x is sad/happy?”etc.

-feel free to ‘echo read’—you read, then your child reads after you

-encourage reading with expression!!!

Next Friday is the schools scheduled day for parent/teacher conferences. However, I know many of you are busy, so if you would like to schedule a conference for another time next week before or after school, or even the following week, that is perfectly fine as well. As of now, I have completed five conferences, and scheduled 3 more for next week. The following times are available:

Monday, 19^th- 8:45 am- free; 3:00- free; 3:15- free

Tuesday, 20^th- 8:45 am- Jayme; 3:00- free; 3:15- free

Wednesday, 21^st- 8:45 am- free; 3:00- free; 3:15- free

Thursday, 22^nd- 8:45 am- free; 3:00- Emily; 3:15- Sabine

Friday, 23^rd- 8:45 am- Teppei; increments of 20 minutes here after, are all open

I look forward to setting up a time, and discussing your child’s successes with you. That is all I have for now. If you ever have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to email me or talk with me in person. Thanks so much for reading and have a great weekend!

Emily