MATH

This week, students will begin a unit on 2D shapes.  Students will need to understand the math vocabulary; vertices, sides, compare, same and different. We will focus our learning around circle, square, rectangle, triangle and hexagon.  At the end of this unit, students will have to compare how shapes are the same and different.  

At home encourage students to use the vocabulary listed above.  We teach children that sides are used to make a shape and vertices are where two sides meet.  Students can practice finding 2D shapes in their environment and identifying them. Have students count to 75 or beyond.  By the end of the 3rd quarter, students need to count to 75 stundets must count through the decades (20,30,40, 50,60, etc.) without hesitating to be considered proficient. 

These slides are a great away to practice understanding shape attributes with students at home.  Put the slides into slideshow and click through, reading the clues to your student.  Click to check their answers. 

Shapes Slides Practice

SOCIAL STUDIES

We will begin a unit about wants and needs.  We will focus on what is a want and what is a need.  We will also learn about goods and services.  At the end of this unit, we will compare how things have changed over time.  We will use baby pictures to help us understand this.  Please feel free to send in a digital copy of your student as a baby! 

PHONICS & LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

Letter Sounds Video

Segmenting Sounds Video

This week students will meet the letter name and sounds for f, l and -ff. 

At home continue practicing hearing sounds in words (video support above) and writing letters correctly (writing pages available in the resources tab). 

For reading comprehension students will explore the text Same, Same but Different. We will use this text to both retell the key details and compare characters.  At home you can listen to the story by clicking on the link and discussing the key details with your student (characters, setting, Beginning, middle and end) and have them talk about Kailash and Elliot are the same and different. 

WRITING

In quarter 3, writing will become more of an idependent activity, where students are required to write down their own thoughts, sound out words to spell them. In quarters 1 and 2 students could be considered proficient by simply dictating their thoughts, this is no longer true in quarter 3, you may see this reflective in their grades as the quarter continues. 

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.

Have students write the words ten, pin, pen, tug, mug, cup, den. You say the word, they write the sounds they hear. These words should be spelled correct since we have learned these sounds In class. 

Classrooms will be reviewing routines and procedures during the first week.  Students will also continue learning about the 7 habits and how they impact their learning. 

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