Important Dates
January
19 - No School - Martin Luther King's Birthday
23 – Ronald McDonald Assembly
Math
We are just finishing up Chapter 7 and will be starting Chapter 8 next week. We will be studying making and reading graphs in this chapter.
Spelling
On Monday, I gave the children the spelling test over the words that should have been tested on December 19th, our snow day. I did not enter these scores in my grade book, but I did give children a sticker and a punch on their punch card if they got all the words correct.
Author of the MonthJan Brett is our author for the month of January. We read a couple of her books this week. She gives many picture clues in her books that help children to predict what might happen next.
We explored her website as a group in class and also individually during computer time. You may also access this website at home. It has many different activities for children to do. Her website is: www.janbrett.com
Reading
Our stories for next week are Me on the Map and Children of the World.
Comprehension Strategies
We will be working on summarizing, making generalizations and reading a map.
Vocabulary Words
Our vocabulary words are: ball, countries, country, earth, giant, special, street, and town.
Phonics Skills
We will be blending long “a” words with the CVCe pattern. We will also be working on the soft c and g sound and the final consonants nd, ng, and nk.
We will be blending long “a” words with the CVCe pattern. We will also be working on the soft c and g sound and the final consonants nd, ng, and nk.
Grammar Lesson
We will be working on identifying telling and asking sentences and the correct punctuation for each.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words are: make, came, take, name, gave, game, place, skate, today, and are.
