Phonics: We began unit 9 in Phonics. Unit 9 introduces the closed syllable rule. Closed syllables are words that have one vowel and must be closed in by consonants. We continue to review our r controlled vowels: ar, or, er, ir, and ur. Our trick words that we will learn about this week are see, between and each. We will also learn about vowels teams this week: oi, oy. I will be sending home a packet on Unit 9 at the beginning of the week. Please do some of these activities throughout the week.
Reading: We are continuing Retelling through the retell rope! We are going to read Winter's Gift. We will retell the story with Characters, Setting, Problem, Beginning, Next, Then, Finally and the Solution! We have already gone through retelling with Jan Brett's Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Hat, The Mitten and Bear Snores On. We are also working on this daily in our Reading Groups. The students are allowed to use dry erase markers to write on the Guided Reading table. They stop after each page and retell through writing on the table. They use character names, specific setting and the events in order from first to last. We are also going to learn about Sammy the Summarizer this week. This is part of a program called Reciprocal Teaching. This is the final piece of Reciprocal Teaching. They have learned about Penelope the Predictor, Clara the Clarifier and Quincy the Questioner. This program allows students to have discussions about the books they are reading and ensures those discussions are meaningful. It helps students gain more understanding of comprehension before, during and after reading!!
Math: We will learn how to use graphing pieces to cover a design and read a graph. We will be introduced to the ordinal position of 26. We will learn how to write money amounts using a cents sign with pennies and dimes. At the end of the week we will learn about dividing squares in halves and reviewing how to write the fraction 1/2. We continue with our Math Rotations. They work with me on the new concept, review the concept with Mrs. Rowles, Mimio Math interactive and independent math that involves critical thinking.
Writing: We have transitioned from storytelling to writing books on our expertise. This week we are going to learn about using partners to help them add or take away parts in their books that do not belong in their teaching books. This will take a few days to do as they will be partnering up with other students and revising their pieces. We will review our goals for writing. Some of the goals include: spelling trick words correctly according to our word wall, adding capital letters to beginning of our sentences, making sure there is punctuation at the end of each sentence, making we are writing like authors do when writing teaching books, matching our words to our pictures and adding more to our pages or chapters that need to be included.
Social Studies/Science: We will begin our unit on Weather this week. We will be working on graphing our weather daily.
REMINDERS:
NO SWIMMING THIS WEEK
February 7-Me and My Special Guy Dance
***Bring your color sheet***
This will get our class a party if you bring your color sheet!
February 9-12-Courtwarming Week-Will post schedule on blog and send
home a sheet with all days
February 13-No School
February 12-Valentine’s Day Party
February 16-No School
February 20-PTO Movie Night
February 23-Last day to turn in Six Flags Reading
February 26-Going to PAC to watch 2nd Grade Play
February 27-120th Day
of School
February 12-Valentine’s Day Party
February 16-No School
February 20-PTO Movie Night
February 23-Last day to turn in Six Flags Reading
February 26-Going to PAC to watch 2nd Grade Play
February 27-120th Day
of School
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