Our Weekly News February 20-24

 

Dear Families,

The snow is back!! Thanks for making sure your child has ALL of their snow clothes for recess!!

ELA

This week in ELA we read books about  Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and what it is like to be a president. One of our read alouds was titled Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner.  While listening to the story, we worked on the skills of predicting, problem and solution, and making connections.  Our focus vocabulary words were President and slavery...be sure to ask us what those words mean. 

We loved making connections with Abraham Lincoln and coming up with ideas of what we would keep in our tall top hats.  Check out the cute project we made to go along with our writing!

We are amazing writers!!

This week our phonics focus was ing.  Be sure to ask your child to sing the -ing song that helps us remember how to read and spell -ing!

Our 2 new sight words were your and if. We had fun playing a Presidents themed game of Tic Tac Toe each morning this week! Ask your child to read the words and tell you who won our game!

We hope you enjoyed listening to our poem this week! We loved learning about the different presidents on each coin!

Writing

During our Writer's Workshop, we continue to work on our Informative Books.  We can't wait to share our books with you!

Math

This week in math we continued to look at three-dimensional shapes.  The kids engaged in sorting by attributes, investigating spheres, searching for certain shapes around the room and building shapes with polydrons.  We also continue to count and compare quantities.  At home, you could ask us to count by 10's to 100 or count by 1's to 100.  If we can do both of those...ask us to count starting at 48 or 62 to 100 - we need lots of practice with these skills!

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