November 14th, 2014
Notes~
v Practice
the last sounds a word makes. Ask
your child to identify them.
v Practice
our word wall words that come home each week.
v Practice
names of 2D and 3D shapes.
v Practice
writing numbers to 50.
v Listen
to your child read their take home book.
What
We Are Learning~
We spent the first week of November working on
voting/elections. This was a very
interesting topic to spend some time on.
The students got to learn about ballots, voting, and even do some voting
of their own. Ask about our
classroom cookie election. It was
fun and tasty! Then we moved on to
Long Ago/Thanksgiving work. This
will take us through to the end of the month. We will be busy learning about Pilgrims, Indians, and the life
long ago. We will be working on a
variety of comprehension strategies while studying about Thanksgiving. These strategies are: asking questions,
visualizing, and checking for understanding. We have also been very busy learning our word wall
words. We have introduced our
first 25 and are working hard on the last half of the list. These words are a bit harder! Keep practicing them at home!
In math we have just begun our new unit on
numbers to 20 and above. We started
the first week on just learning to count and write the numbers from 11-20. We spent a lot of time discussing the
number pattern that they will see while writing these and counting them. Then we moved on to discussing the
actual make up of these numbers.
We have been working on part, part, and whole. What 2 numbers make up the number are the 2 different parts
and the number is the whole. Ask
your child about their work!
We have been working very hard on our
writing! WOW! We have really improved our
skills. We have been working on
being “famous authors”. We have
looked at how their pictures show details, their words match the pictures, and
even how when they think they are done, they have just begun. It has been great to see all the
progress we are making each day!
Have your child show you a little writing for them.
Upcoming
Events~
v November
19 – Early Out
v November
26, 27, 28 – No School
v December
4th – 6:30 at the HS Aud.
v December
10th – Early Out
v December
24 – January 2- No School Winter Break
