Welcome Back
and
Happy New Year!!!
We have started STEP testing this week and next. Please
make sure that your child gets plenty of sleep and has a nutritious breakfast! Thanks.
LITERATURE
King Bidgood in the Bathtub
Miss Nelson is Missing
Focus: Problem and Solution
MATH
During the months
of November, December, and January 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
We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on
paper using pictures and words. We are also
labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels. This week we are
working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls. We are working on
thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the
pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an
important way to tell more about our story.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Geography: We are learning...
·
what a map and globe represent and how they are used
·
what rivers, lakes, and mountains are and how they are
represented on maps and globes
·
the location of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
·
the location of the North and South Poles
·
the meaning of some basic terms necessary for working with maps
such as compass rose, cardinal directions, symbols, keys, etc
·
the names and locations of the seven continents and some familiar
associations with each continent
·
the name location of the town, city, or community, and the state
in which they live
·
the location of North America, the continental United States,
Alaska, and Hawaii
