Phonics: In Phonics this week students will continue identifying the initial/final sound of a word. Students will also be isolating the beginning sound of a word and generating a list of other words that sound the same with the same initial sound. The sight words students will be learning this week will be get, hot, where and or. Please continue working with students in identifying their sight words. Students should be able to identify lists 1-3 by spring break, these lists are found in their daly folder. We do assess them out of order, so please make flashcards or tests out of order so students are not just memorizing the words.
Grammar : This week the students will focus on knowing the Pronouns: they, them, theirs.
A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun. It can refer to people, things, places, and concepts.
For example: They are playing at recess. The children are playing at recess
Reading: The students will review folktales and fairytales. They will be comparing and contrasting two versions of the Story of the Three Little Pigs along with completing story element graphic organizers. At the end of our unit the students will have fun with a STEM activity for the three little pigs and will work in groups to build a strong pig house. They will also be introduced to nursery rhymes and what elements make up it. They will use their retelling skills for the traditional nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty.
Writing- In writing, students will put on their creative writing caps to write from various perspectives of different characters in the three little pigs. Students will have to think about how the story would change.
Math-This week in Math we will be wrapping up our learning about graphs. We will then head into a new unit on 2 Dimensional shapes. During this unit we will be looking at 2D shapes and learning about their sides, vertices (corners), attributes, and making connections to real life objects.We will be taking an in depth look of each shape to help them understand them. By the end of this unit students should be able to say the shapes name, describe the shapes by attributes and give examples of them.
Social studiesStudents will reflect on all the patriotic holidays they learned about and create a tri-fold that illustrates the purpose of all three holidays. Social studies day two will allow students to explore the idea of culture. Students will get to take home a "my culture" sheet to fill out with family.
Science: In Science we will be beginning our new unit where we will be exploring weather. This unit is a quick and fast unit! By the end of the unit students will be expected to understand and address weather changes and objects in the sky related to weather, learn to collect information using tools, including weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers and wind socks, use their senses to continue observing and describing weather changes from day to day and communicate and discuss their observations and record data in their notebooks. This week we will introduce the unit by learning about the famous scientist, John Dalton. We will also introduce the weather vocabulary, complete a hands-on experiment with rain and make it rain onto a fake cloud and learn all about snow and create our very own snowflake. The overall goal for this week is for students to learn about two forms of precipitation (snow and rain).
