Weeks of December 14-18 December 21-23
Whether you will be traveling for the holidays or staying home,
I wish you an enjoyable and restful holiday break!
Homework:
The word wall words for this week are: come, other, went, our, day.
*Complete 2or more word wall activities by Friday.
* Please practice them nightly. Students should be able to read them by Friday.
* Please remember to continue to review past word wall words also.
The spelling patternfor the week is listed on the colored sheet. When studying the spelling pattern with your child, please focus on the sound we are working on or the rule, rather than just memorization. Your child will be tested on some of those words as well as similar words on the spelling test day.
*Spelling test- Wednesday, 12/23.
Homework:
Monday, 12/15-Cut out your new spelling words. Practice sorting your words.
Tuesday, 12/16- Word wall word activities
*Also practice what you are going to say and show at the Traditions Celebration; Bring in non-food items for your presentation. Dress rehearsal is tomorrow.
Wednesday, 12/17- Practice for our Traditions Celebration.
Thursday, 12/18- Read the “just right” book in your reading bag by yourself and then to someone at home. Practice for our Traditions Celebration.
Notes and Reminders:
- Please remember if you are busy and are unable to complete a homework activity, please just let me know.
- Friday, December 18this our Traditions Celebration from 9:15-10:15.
- Wednesday, December 23: 12:30 Dismissal
- Our class is in need of baby wipes and Lysol wipes. If anyone is willing to donate some to the class, it will be greatly appreciated.
Overview of the Week:
In Language Arts, we will share a few books as a class, including, An Egg Is An Egg (a big book), Who’s in a Family?, Jan Brett books, and some holiday stories. We are continuing to learn strategies that “good readers” use to help them read a new text. Over the next week and a half, we will conclude our unit “Using Strategies to Become a Better Reader”. Students will practice applying all the “tricky word” strategies that we have learned. We will work with their reading partners. Students will focus on how reading partners can help by using the pictures to help retell the big important parts, how they can help one another when one of them gets stuck on a word, and listen to each other read and try to catch each other’s mistakes.
In terms of phonics, we will continue to review the short vowel sounds and practice blending with different word families (graphemic bases) that have the short vowels. Students will also learn to associate the consonant clusters bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl with the sounds they represent.
In Writer’s Workshop, the students will begin to revise and edit a favorite piece from their small moment unit.
In Math we will complete Unit 4 Using Subtraction Strategies. The students will solve word problems using the “act it out” strategy. We will finish up this chapter and students will have a written formal assessment on Unit 4.
Students have learned many interesting holiday customs from various countries around the world! Ask your child who had the first tree, or the first stocking, or who La Befana is! Enjoy all the projects that will be sent home at the end of this week or beginning of next week.
Next week will be filled with holiday cheer. We will enjoy holiday stories and activities. Students will also enjoy a holiday concert by our high school jazz band Monday morning and a holiday sing-a-long on Wednesday morning. We will have our holiday party Monday afternoon.
Happy Holidays! Happy Winter Break!