Welcome back to you and your children! We hope you had a restful winter holiday :-)
In Literacy this week, we wrote in our journals and practiced adding detail to our work by writing more supporting sentences. Students should be writing several ideas to support their topic sentence. We continue to emphasize the importance of leaving spaces between words and using end punctuation. Students should be beginning to use upper and lower case letters in the appropriate places.
Students continue to learn 5 new sight words each week. We now have 20 "no excuse" words on our word wall! We use the words we have learned to guess the missing word in a passage, or to make new words by making words that rhyme.
The following photo is a picture of our Making Words lesson. Ask your child to make some 2-5 letter words, culminating with the final mystery word that uses all of the letters.
Our story of the week is called The Mitten by Jan Brett. Ask your child to retell the story.
In Math, we are reviewing the basic 2D shapes and adding more complex shapes (quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and octagons) into the mix. We read The Greedy Triangle and watched how the triangle changed every time a new side was added.
In Science, we continue to work on Seasonal Changes combined with The Five Senses as we study the changes that have occurred since the beginning of the winter season. We will continue to discuss our observations of living and non-living things during this time of the year. On February 1, we will be going on a field trip to the Cross Conservation Area for a program called Winter Walkabout. 8 volunteers will be required. We will open extra spaces on the volunteer sign up shortly if you are interested in helping us on that day.
Also in Science, we are learning about how guide dogs help people who have lost their sense of sight. Each child will bring home a guide dog stuffy with a few activities to complete at one point in the next few weeks.
Here are a few more pictures of things we did this week:
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Ms. Cvach
Mrs. Kenna
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