Newsletter: January 19

Next Week's Specials:

Monday - PE

Tuesday - STEAM

Wednesday - Music, Library

Thursday - Art

Friday - PE

Coming Up...

• Early Release: Friday, February 2 (12:15pm dismissal)  
• Mid-Winter Break: Monday, February 5 & Tuesday, February 6
• Valentine's Day Party & Wear Red/Pink: Wednesday, February 14

Reading:

This week we have been reading some fun winter books such as Sneezy the Snowman and The Mitten.  We are focusing on retelling these stories.  On Friday, we cut out paper animals from The Mitten and next week we will use these as we retell the story.  Here are some photos of the kids while they were working on cutting.     

Writing:

This week we began a new unit on personal narratives.  We first practiced telling a small moment story about ourselves out loud.  We learned that a small moment story is about a short period of time...not a whole day.  We also began to write a small moment story all together about our trip to the library on Wednesday.  We will finish this shared story next week and then the kids will start writing their own small moment personal narratives.      

Word Study:

Each day we have a Word Study time.  The curriculum we use is called EBLI (Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction).  This week we learned two different spellings for /ou/.  The picture below shows a few sentences that we practiced reading all together.  

We also learned that the 'ow' can make the /ou/ sound or the /oa/ sound.  Each student had a whiteboard and wrote all of these words on his/her own whiteboard.  

Math:

This week we worked on finding number partners.  We played a game called the "Unknown Partner Game" for the number 7.  Partner 1 had to close his/her eyes while Partner 2 took some square tiles away.  Partner 1 then opened his/her eyes and had to figure out how many tiles Partner 2 had taken away.  They had a lot of fun with this game!