We had such a great time at our Valentine's Day parties!  Thanks again to all of the great volunteers who made the parties so special.

Our Read-A-Thon is also this Friday.  We will be doing all sorts of fun reading activities throughout the day!  Make sure to turn in those fundraiser packets(if you chose to participate) and continue to send the Reading Olympic calendars in or email me your child's minutes. 

Reading:  Lesson 18

• Phonemic Awareness: Identify middle sound in words
• Letters: Ww, Xx
• High-Frequency Words: Review 
• Robust Vocabulary: load, bound, steep, drooped, joyous, thrill, fantasy, jolly, versatile, agreed, contribute, spontaneously
• Identifying beginning, middle, and end of a story
• Using graphic organizers to help with story comprehension
• Writing: story response, working on adding "voice" to our writing

Reading Homework

• Lesson 17 Homework

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week) 

• Lesson 18 Red (focuses on recognizing the letter W and X)
• Lesson 18 Blue(includes short sentences that focus on our most recent sight words. It also focuses on basic CVC -ix and -ox words)
•  Lesson 18 Green(includes more complex sentences)  

• Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens
  • 4.4: Addition and Subtraction Stories: Grocery Store Scenario 
  • Objectives: explore addition and subtraction in buying and selling experiences; express addition and subtraction story problems in drawings and expressions; practice repeating patterns
  • Vocabulary: addition, total, subtraction, plus sign, minus sign
• 4.5: Practice with Teen Numbers and Partners
• Objectives: show teen numbers as a ten and extra ones; show teen numbers as 10 + a 1-digit number; identify sets of partners for numbers 2 through 6
• Vocabulary: teen equation, partner
• 4.6: Patterns with Shapes and Repeating Patterns
• Objectives: explore shapes and combine them to make new shapes; make repeating patterns with shapes, sounds, and actions; find sets of partners for 10
• Vocabulary: triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, pattern, alike, different, partner
• 4.7: Count, Match, and Compare with Math Drawings
• Objectives: explore addition and subtraction through buying and selling experiences; express addition and subtraction story problems in drawings and expressions; draw matching lines to see more and fewer
• Vocabulary: addition, subtraction, extra, less, more, fewer 

• Math Homework: 
• Monday: No School
• Tuesday: 4.4  
• Wednesday:
• Thursday: 4.6
• Friday:

• Math Challenge (Optional)
• • 4.4 challenge
• 4.5 challenge
• 4.6 challenge
• 4.7 challenge

This week:

February 3-7

Remember, our field trip to Stages Theater has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 4 at 10AM. Please make sure your child is at school on time, as we will be leaving around 9AM.  We will be back at 11:30.

Thanks to our wonderful PTA, Adventures in Art will also start on Monday for both the AM and PM classes. Parent volunteers will come in on four different days to teach us about interesting pieces of art.  We will also get to create fun art projects that are related to the piece.

THIS WEEK WE WILL WORK ON:
Reading: Lesson 16

• Phonemic Awareness: review final sounds in words
• Letter: Ll and Hh
• High-Frequency Words: one, see
• Work on using story structure to better understand a story
• Identify the setting of a story
• Robust Vocabulary: load, bound, steep, drooped, joyous, thrill
• Reread Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo By Kevin Lewis and Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
• Writing commands and working on word choice
• Centers on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Reading Homework

• Lesson 15 Homework (Due Back February 7)
• Lesson 16 Homework (Will come home February 7, Due back Thursday, February 13)

Guided Readers (I will be reading these with students in groups of 4-5 throughout the week) 

• Lesson 16 Red (focuses on recognizing the letter Ll and Hh and the sound they make)
• Lesson 16 Blue (includes short sentences that focus on our new sight words, one and see.  It also focuses on basic CVC words and reviews previous sight words)
• Lesson 16 Green (includes more complex sentences)

Math: Unit 3

• Unit 3: 
• 3.20: More Graph Drawings: Match and Compare
• Objectives: describe relative position using ordinal numbers; establish links between math and the real world; tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
• Vocabulary: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, more, fewer
• 3.21: More Teen Numbers with Classroom Objects
• Objectives: group the ten inside teen numbers; match partners and totals for teen numbers; use the words more and fewer to compare quantities
• Vocabulary: more, less, fewer
• 3.22: More Attribute Card Activities
• Objectives: sort by shape, size, and color; generate shape patterns; use equal and not equal to signs
• Vocabulary: sort, equal to sign, is not equal to sign

• 3.24: Shapes in a Garden Scene
• Objectives: establish links between math and the real world; tell and solve addition and subtraction stories; identify and count shapes
• Vocabulary: oval, trapezoid, rectangle, hexagon, circle, square, diamond, triangle
• 3.25: Use Mathematical Processes
• Objectives: apply mathematical concepts and skills in meaningful concepts
• Vocabulary: