January Week 5

What we will cover for January 27th-31st:

Sight Words: of   do 

Letter sounds: sh

Skills: Manipulating the ending sounds in words.

Word Family: -and

Reading: Identify Plot 

Writing: We will be focusing and incorporating alliteration in our writing. 

Math: Represent, count and write numbers 11-20.

Science: Day sky vs Night sky. Key vocab: sun,moon,stars,sky. 

Social Studies: Maps, globes and bodies of water. 

*** PLEASE MAKE SURE STUDENTS ARE COMPLETING THEIR HOMEWORK EVERY WEEK!!!!***    

January Week 4

What we will cover for January 22nd-24th: 

Sight Words: Him   His 

Letter sounds: wh

Skills: Manipulating middle sounds in words. 

Word Family: -un

Reading: Main idea and supporting details in informational texts. 

Writing: We will be using onomatopoeia in our writing pieces this week! 

Math: Applying addition and subtraction to real-world concepts (cont. from last week). Students have been working on addition and subtraction problems with "change unknown" or "start unknown".  We will be taking our math test for this unit on FRIDAY! =). 
For example: Jimmy has some marbles. Lucy gave him 5 more marbles. Now Jimmy has 7 marbles. How many marbles did Jimmy have to start with? 

__+5=7

Example: Jimmy has 3 marbles. Lucy gave him some more marbles. Now Jimmy has 8 marbles. How many more marbles did Lucy give Jimmy? 

3+__=8

Example: Jimmy has 8 cookies. Lucy ate some of Jimmy's cookies. Now Jimmy only has 2 cookies. How many did Lucy eat? 

8-__=2 

Example: Jimmy has some cookies. Lucy took 2 of Jimmy's cookies. Now Jimmy has 6 cookies. How many cookies did Jimmy have to start with? 

___-2=6 

Science:  How do things move? / How does movement create sound? 

                  Observe a variety of objects that make sound. (cont. from last week). 

Social Studies: Maps and Globes. Students will know their street address, city, state and phone number. 

Family Science Night

Please attend Family Science Night this Thursday the 23rd from 6pm-8pm. Our school's science committee has put in a lot of time and effort to make this night fun and informational for our students! I hope to see you there! 

Update for 1-17-13

We have had a great week this week! We have almost completed all midyear FAIR testing!!! I'm sure the the students are as excited as I am ;). 

I have informed students that this Friday we will be having a substitute teacher. This is the first time this school year that I have been out. I'm sure the students will be great! If you can remind students to be on their best behavior tomorrow!!!! 

I have left the sub very detailed plans, especially with dismissal procedures. 

I hope you have a great weekend! I will update our plans for next week this coming Monday. 

***Students do not have school this coming Monday and Tuesday.***

January Week 3

What we will cover for the week of January 13th-17th: 

Sight Words: Her     That 

Letter Sound: -ph

Skills: Segmenting and Blending Syllables 

Word Family: -ay

Reading: We will be focusing on story structure and comparing/contrasting texts. 

Writing: We will be writing opinion pieces including support and details. 

          

Math: Applying addition and subtraction to real-world concepts. 

Science: "How do objects move?/ How does this movement create sound?" 

Key vocabulary: vibrate, sound, predict. 

Social Studies: Seasonal weather changes/ affects on people and environment. 

CLASS BASKET 

If you would like to donate items to our class basket, please have these items turned in by February 1st! Thank you! 

This week is Literacy week for the state of Florida! 

"On Monday January 13th, (this coming Monday) the state of Florida is asking that we have all of our students read an extra 33minutes to help contribute to the state goal of 33million minutes read. We will kick the week off with Reading Rocks, Wear your Funky Socks on Monday". 

Parents Guide to Common Core Learning/myOn.com

Our school's principal shared a very informative handbook for parents regarding the Common Core Standards. I would definitely suggest reading it. When you have the time, take a look!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B05jiy9jLzdrYVRtbnNab3ZQZTg/edit?usp=sharing

***If you are having trouble finding genres of books for you child to read, check out: www.myon.com.  The site will prompt you to enter your child's school, username and password.  

Your child's username is their student number (lunch number) and their password is their birth month and year (mm/yyyy). 

First day back

We had a great day back after the long break!!!! Students got right back into the learning routine.


Just some quick reminders:

• Make sure your child is reading at least 15-20 minutes a day (this can be independently reading or being read to by an adult). 

***Don't forget about the Book-It program which our class is utilizing as an incentive to read at home!***

(I will be sending home the January reading log form tomorrow). 

• Have your child practice writing at home. Look for proper capitalization , spaces in between words, and punctuation at the end of sentences. 
  

January Week 2

I hope all of you had a wonderful break with your families! 

Thank you to all my students and families for all the kind gifts! You are all too sweet! 

Here are some expectations for this first week back:
Sight Words for this week:  She   This 

Letter Sound: ch

Skills: Counting syllables in words.

Word family: -ing (students will be introduced to words ending in "ing").

Reading: We will be focusing on the sequence of events and the author's purpose in the books we read.

Writing:  In our writing pieces this week, we are going to focus on strong nouns.

Math: Understanding addition and subtraction concepts.

Science: How do objects move? (fast,slow,push, pull)

Social Studies: Discussing friend's New Years celebrations.


*REMINDERS*
Please practice kindergarten sight words at home! I have recently sent home the lists in the students' homework folders. You can practice these sight words in a variety of ways: play bingo, go fish, flash cards, etc.

*We are quickly approaching List 3. All students have been exposed to all sight words on list 1 and most of 2.

List 1		List 2		List 3		List 4		List 5
the		on		of		if		did
boy		big		do		up		get
a		said		when		out		play
girl		off		what		down		good
I		little		then		about		very
yes		have		had		with		who
can		at		not		were		why
see		look		all		some		where
no		my		go		so		which
like		by		an		come		saw
and		be		here		into		want
is		me		one		them		every
in		he		as		made		came
it		we		there		has		went
was		she		from		make		put
to		this		your		should		any
are		her		they		now		over
you		that		but		could		know
for		his		how		too		their
am		him		will		would		around