12/07/2014

December 8-12

LITERATURE
Ezra Jack Keats Author Study

  • Peter's Chair
  • Hi, Cat
  • Jennie's Hat
  • Louie
  • Goggles
  • Snowy Day

MATH
This week's focus: review
During the months of November and December students will work on the following skills:
·   numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
·   tally marks
·  matching and sorting: shapes
·  reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes
·  patterns :ABC and ABB
·  comparing, ordering, and  measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING
Students were introduced to writer's workshop last week. We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words. 

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Colonial Towns and Towsnpeople