MATH

This week, students will be working with numbers to compose and decompose numbers to find partners of 5-10. Partners are two numbers that are used to make a bigger number.  For example; 3 and 2 are partners to make 5. 1 and 5 are partners to make 6.  This unit is the foundation for addition and subtract that is coming in Quarter 4. 

Watch here for more information on Unit 5.

At home, students can practice finding the parts of number 5-10.  They can use a break apart stick (this has been taught at school) to suppor their thinking. 

Have students count to 75 or beyond.  By the end of the 3rd quarter, students need to count to 75 students must count through the decades (20,30,40, 50,60, etc.) without hesitating to be considered proficient. 

SCIENCE

We will begin our unit on weather.  Students will learn about how weather changes from day to day. We will have some fun experiments that are integrated into this unit!  

PHONICS & LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

Letter Sounds Video

CVC Blending Practice

CVC Blending Practice 2

This week students will finish meeting the letters and sounds of the alphabet.  At this point in the school year, students should be reading and writing CVC words independently.  In class, we are practicing blending sounds together by reading slow or using the rollercoaster trick to support their blending skills. 

At home students can practice blending words together when they come across a word they don't know.  Students can also use the videos above for practice. 

For reading comprehension students will finish reading Rain Stomper.  This book is great for growing vocabulary and working with verbs. You can listen to the story here: Rain Stomper 

Students will begin a new book about Snow.  We will use this text to compare two non-fiction texts. 

WRITING

This week students will compose a writing piece about their opinion on rain.  Students will also read about Snow and write an informational piece that provides two facts about snow. Students must have writing on the assignment to count as benchmark, dictation only is no longer considered proficient at this point in the year. 

At home have students practice writing the sounds they hear In words- even if the spelling is incorrect. For example If they are writing "hair" they might spell it "har". We have not learned all of these spelling patterns or sounds yet so spelling does not need to be correct. Encourage students to write their thoughts in complete sentences using a capital at the beginning, spaces between their words and punctuation on the end. 

Students will be creating their own vision boards for the new year! 

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