Saturday, January 20, 2024

January 22nd Newsletter

 

January 22nd, 2024


A friendly reminder that we are halfway through the school year. Your student should be about halfway done (13 lists) with their take home sight word lists! 


This week in literacy, we will…

  • Continue learning about the vowel team sound-spellings for long o (oa, ow, silent e).

  • Read and write words ending with the suffixes -ful and -less. 

  • Read a book titled The Farmer and the Crow. We will infer a lesson from the story, and retell important events.

  • Read a poem titled, The Snowman. We will highlight words with -ow sounds and compound words in the poem.

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

  • Continue working on our how-to writing unit

  • Learn about how we need to include a list of materials at the beginning of our pieces and include commas in the list of items

  • Learn about the importance of including very specific details in order to teach our readers

This week in math, we will….

  • Play Shape detectives

  • Walk around the school on a 3D shape hunt

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the difference between the defining and non-defining attributes of 3D shapes

  • Play “Whats in my bag?” 

  • Create our own 3D shapes 

This week in social studies we will….

  • Start a new unit “Celebrating America”

  • Learn about the White House

  • Learn about why we celebrate independence day

  • Learn about important people such as Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman, and more! 


Important Dates to Remember!

  • Jan 22. - Take home “How to Project” selected and pink sheet due. Project is not due until February. 

  • January 23- Thorson Night at CHS basketball game

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