Magnolia Elementary February Newsletter

Important Dates:

2/17 No school

3/14  Learn with Me 1-2pm

5/2 Zoo field trip

Notes from Ms. Sample

• Please send your child to school with winter clothing for outdoor recess. If you are in need of new clothing for your child please reach out to Ms. Mack by email at keesha.mack@hcps.org she can provide winter clothing for your child

Alphabetic Awareness

We will construct and identify the letter k. We will produce k's sound 

Letter video

Sight Word

We will review sight words we and will

Phonemic Awareness

WEEKS 19-27: PHONEMES (in 2 sound words) 

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

 At school your child is engaging in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons. Over the next 9 weeks, your child will be diving into blending (putting together) and segmenting (separating) individual sounds in words. We call these individual sounds phonemes. Your child practices these skills daily, because “one of the most robust findings of modern reading research is that proficient reading is strongly associated with the ability to identify, remember, and sequence phonemes” (Moats, 2014). 

When having conversations with your child, consider using some of these activities with words and language they are familiar with: 

★ Sound Search - Choose a word/familiar name and say to your child: 

○ Tell me the first sound you hear in ___? 

○ Tell me the last sound you hear in ____? 

○ Tell me the medial/vowel sound you hear in ____? 

○ Example words you can use: hot tub lip dog mad pet 

★ Hop the sounds! Make two boxes on the floor with tape or chalk. Have your child jump to a new box for each new sound they hear in the word. 

For example, for the word up, students would jump in the first square as they say /u/ sound and the second square as they say the /p/ sound. Some examples of words you can use are: 

○ at → ă - t        on → ŏ - n       by → b - ī          low → l - ō          may → m - ā 

★ Blending Blocks - You can use legos or blocks or anything around that house that has two parts that can be put together. Say two sounds as you show your child two blocks. Have them put the blocks together as they say the word by blending the two sounds together. 

Use the words below as examples: 

○ g - ō → go         m - ē → me       p - ī → pie         h - ā → hay              s - ē → see 

★ Say to your child, “Tell me a word that begins like _____? 

○ Example: Tell me a word that begins like pick (pig, pumpkin, pine, pay) 

★ Books to enjoy together and look for rhymes! ○ Commotion in the Ocean by Nayasha Williams ○ Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae ○ Señorita Mariposa by Ben Gundersheimer ○ I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont 

Writing

We will research dinosaurs, add labels and seperate words with spaces.

Math

We will sort objects by color, size and shape

P.I.E (Projects, Investigation, and Exploration) 

We will discover features dinosaurs had for protection and sculpt a dinosaur

Social Emotional Learning/Character Building

We will learn work on learning strategies to cheer ourselves up