Sunday, February 26, 2012

Week of February 27

This week is Dr. Seuss read across America week. Please refer to the email and flyer I sent home about dress up week! :)

We will be reading lots of Dr. Seuss this month and especially this week. We will be creating oobleck on Friday and creating some Dr. Seuss art.

In Reading, our phonics skills are the long i sound with the -igh and -ie spelling pattern. The high frequency words are laugh, touch, moon, eight, and above.

In math we will be starting unit 7 on geometry. We will be learning about shapes and their attributes.

In social studies we will start working on needs and wants.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Week of February 14

Happy Valentine's Day!

This week in math we will be practicing measuring in centimeters, graphing and data analysis, and reviewing for our unit 6 test coming up next week.

In reading, we are working with the long o sound (oa and ow) and three letter blends like spl in split. The high frequency words are found, mouth, once, took, and wild. We will be reading a story about dinosaurs called Mr. Bones, Dinosaur Hunter.

On Friday, it will be pajama day as we earned another class reward!

Look for a conference preparation form coming home with the homework on Tuesday to turn in to help me prepare for our conferences coming up!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Week of February 6

This week we have an early out on Wednesday. Dismissal is at noon.

In Reading, our story of the week is The Dot. The high frequency words are colors, draw, drew, great, over, show, and sign. In phonics we are working on the long e sound with ea and changing the y to i in words like happier and silliest.

I math we are working on quarters and digital time.

In social studies we are continuing maps and science is continuing plants. We will also be starting a Flat Stanley project. Look for instructions coming soon.