January 10th Newsletter

 

January 10th, 2021

This week in literacy, we will… 

• Understand use contractions with not, are and am

• Read a funny poem titled, Crocodile. We will identify contractions in the poem

• Read Zoom in and Out by Amanda Yskamp. We will search for and use information in text as well as in photographs, labels, sidebars and captions. We will also use contextual information to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

• Read nonfiction books titled, What if you had Animal Teeth, by Sandra Markle, Best Foot Forward, by Ingo Arndt, and Surprising Sharks, by Nicola Davies

In Writing this week, we will…

• Practice spelling domain-specific words

• Set writing goals to make our writing better

• Edit our work by including end marks, capital letters, and other punctuation marks 

• Create a Table of Contents 

In math this week, we will…

• - Recognize and extend number patterns

• - Count to 120, starting with any number less than 120, including 0 or 1

• - Read numerals to 120

• - Count by 5s and 10s to 100

• - Mentally find the number that is 10 more or 10 less than a given 2-digit number, without counting, and explain the reasoning used

This week during our Social Studies time we will be starting a unit on our Country. We will begin by learning about all of the continents and oceans, then we will zoom in on our country.  We will learn about the 13 colonies and the Father of our Country, George Washington.

Important Dates to Remember!

Jan. 10- Winter MAPS Assessment (Reading)

Jan. 12- Winter MAPS Assessment (Reading)

Jan. 17- No School (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

Jan. 18- Winter MAPS Assessment (Math)

Jan. 19- Winter MAPS Assessment (Math)

Jan. 21- No School (Professional Development and Records Day)