Healthy Me!

We have had a busy two weeks learning about how to take care of our teeth and bodies! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week focused on ways to be healthy!  We wrote about healthy habits, looked at the five food groups, played games with blends and digraphs, found words with blends and wrote them,  practiced writing heart words, and more!

In Phonics, we revisited the "wh" and"ch" digraphs. We worked on the power words she, said, off, where, what, and from.  LOTS of tricky words this week! Please keep sounding out words and writing with your child at home. 

In Writing, we worked with our new partners to hear, visualize, and act out poems. We explored interesting words in a poem as well as repetition and rhyme. Some of us even wrote our own poems this week! We worked really hard on visualizing and drew and wrote our visualizations/what we saw in our minds. Ask your child to tell you about what they visualized during Writing. 

We are continuing to work on addition problems and writing number sentences in Math. We talked about how we put together numbers when adding. Please continue to work on adding numbers to 5 with your child.  Encourage your child to use their fingers or manipulatives to count on/add.

Our Reading lessons have taught us more about listening to nonfiction books to build comprehension, how to wonder about a topic and ask questions, and discuss connections between two texts by comparing and contrasting to build on our ability to think critically about texts on the same topic. We also looked at poems that had the same topic (ducks) and made more connections. We learned the vocabulary words icy, fluffy, rocky, and tasty. 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we talked about what we have learned about solving problems. We suggested ways to solve problems in different scenarios and drew a picture of themselves using a problem-solving strategy.  If problems or disagreements arise at home, for example, between siblings, ask your child to suggest a way to help solve the problem. WE have now wrapped up our Second Steps program and will be reinforcing everything we have learned over the coming weeks. 

We started our Social Studies unit on communities, maps, and neighborhoods! We will continue learning over the next few weeks. More to come! 

Looking ahead...

Donuts with Grownups 2/27 (last names A-M) and 2/28 (last names N-Z)

Parent Teacher Conferences 3/4 and 3/12

Early Release Day 3/7
Early Release Day 3/13
Spring Break 3/14-3/23

Thank you so much for all of your donations to Stray Rescue! You are all incredible! 

Have a great weekend! 

Jena

All About the Post Office!

We had a short but busy week learning about the mail and the Post Office! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included various blends and digraphs games, activities that focused on blends, writing letters to our friends, learning about the Post Office and how the mail starts in one place and ends in another, finding blends around our classroom and writing them, writing power words, and reading books on RAZKids! 

In Phonics, we learned to add double consonants to short vowel words (the floss rule).  We practiced reading and writing words that end with this rule. Examples of this are ff, ll, zz, and ss. We learned two new power words:  all and off. We continued working on blends and digraphs. 

In Reading, we continued our exploration of places in our community by listening to nonfiction books about libraries. We discussed information we learned about the topic and made text-to-self and text-to-text connections.  We revisited some familiar big books, reviewed punctuation and rhyme, and echo read to build our oral fluency. Our vocabulary words this week were: study, curious, organize, and reorganize. 

During Writing, we listened to a nonfiction book about vegetables and made observations about various foods.  This helped us brainstorm lots of details for our nonfiction writing. We also talked about the inflectional endings -s and -es in plural nouns. We worked on punctuation at the end of our sentences. 

We started our addition unit in Math.  During this unit, we will learn to add fluently within 5 and 10 using concrete materials and manipulatives.  We will also use pictures to visualize and practice making addition stories and sentences.  Please work with your child on basic addition facts within 5 at home. 

We had fun building galimotos during Science! Ask your child to tell you all about it! 

Valentine's Day Party pics coming soon! 

Looking ahead...

Don't forget to mail your child a letter by Sunday! 

No School- President's Day- 2/17

Service Learning Project items due 2/21 (We have changed the organization to Stray Rescue)
Donuts with Grownups 2/27 (last names A-M) and 2/28 (last names N-Z)

Parent Teacher Conferences 3/4 and 3/12
Early Release Day 3/13
Spring Break 3/14-3/23

Have a great, long weekend!

Jena