Weekly Overview - Jan.9-13

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14....JANUARY 9-13

Dear Parents:

Next Tuesday (January 17) we will be going on a field trip during our regular lunchtime. Your child MUST bring a lunch that day, as there will not be a hot lunch available at the time we will be eating.

Please help your child to remember to bring his/her library book back to school on Tuesday, if s/he has brought it home.       

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Handwriting/phonograms:  We will learn two phonograms:  oa – long o as in boat and ey – long e, long a at the end of the word. There will be a quiz on Thursday.

boat  coat  throat  soap  groan  road  key  turkey  they  grey  prey

 

Reading: Our story this week is called “Lost!”. The comprehension strategy focus is to think about the sequence of events to aid in understanding. Continue to use the Take-Home books to give your child more practice with retelling the order of events.

English:  We will continue to work on editing for punctuation mistakes in sentences.  We will be writing our own creative sentences to practice using ‘s. 

Writing: We continue to focus on the writing process. Students are continuing to work on their narratives. This is proving to be a difficult process for many students to complete on their own as I have given them more of the responsibility to use the structure checklist by themselves.

Spelling: Homework and testing schedule as usual. PLEASE check your child’s homework for numbered sentences, capitals, underlined spelling words, and ending marks (1 must be a ?).

1. her       2. first     3. nurse    4. works   5. early

6. share  7. turn   8. better  9. want  10. (your last

                                                      name)

MATH: We will take our Topic 9 test for patterns. We will begin Topic 11 (skipping 10 for now). We will review the use of the ten-frame to make numbers 11-20 and then we will begin working on number patterns, particularly counting by 10s.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will talk about American holidays as they relate to famous people (Martin Luther King, Jr, Presidents’ Day..).

SHARING: Rows 1 and 2 share Tuesday, Rows 3 and 4 share Wednesday, Rows 5 and 6 share Thursday. Students may share about a thing or an activity. Information about a sharing homework project will be sent home soon.

SCIENCE: We will finish up our air and weather unit by reviewing the types of weather that we graph each day and interpreting a month’s worth of data. We will also review all of the vocabulary that went along with this unit.

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Looking ahead:

January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

January 17- field trip by bus to a play (“Peter Rabbit”). We will not be taking parent helpers. We will be leaving right after recess and returning after the regular lunch. PLEASE SEND A SNACK AND A LUNCH WITH YOUR CHILD THAT DAY. There will be no hot lunch available.

January 17-19 - Parent Visitation from 9-10:00 am

January 24 - Science Fair info. Night 6:30 in the cafeteria

January 30 - Canned Food Drive begins

Have a wonderful week!

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Pierce