Focuses for this week:

Community:
-What is respect? How do we show respect to ourselves, peers, adults, and our environment? What does it look like when others show us respect? How do we navigate situations in which we don't feel respected? How do we respond when others ask us to show them respect?
-Continuing to build community in our classroom through activities that provide opportunities for students to problem-solve together.
-Creating self-portraits and exploring who we are.

ELA:
-Phonemic awareness through Heggerty lessons.
-Phonics through our Phonics Dance.
-Learning concepts of print (parts of a book, directionality in reading, role of author/illustrator) and comprehension concepts (characters and setting, making predictions) through Read Alouds.
-We're starting our Small Group instruction this week! Some students are learning letters, others are learning letter sounds, some will be focusing on distinguishing between commonly confused letters (b/d, p/q, m/n/h, s/z), and others will be starting to learn to blend sounds and read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.
-With handwriting, we're continuing to practice our Pencil Pathways.
-In Writing, we're learning to tell a story through pictures! We're also doing directed drawings to build confidence in drawing and telling stories through pictures. Details are important!

Math:
-We're continuing to solidify our understanding of patterns. Students should be able to continue a pattern when they see the "stem" of the pattern, and to build a pattern when told which kind of pattern to build (AB, ABC, ABB, AAB, AABB, ABCD).
-We continue to practice counting to 100 by tens and ones.
-We are starting to explore number patterns within the hundreds chart.