Reminders and Requests:

• THANK YOU for all of my generous and thoughtful gifts! I am a lucky teacher, indeed!
• We are in need of New Supplies for the New Year!                                                                          For our classroom: Wet Ones! We need to keep our room clean!                                                          For your children: New crayons, markers and colored pencils. Your little artists deserve new supplies!

What we will be learning:

Math– Missing Addends: We will learn how to complete equations by solving for the unknown number i.e. 4+ ___=12

Reading- We will be comparing and contrasting the adventures of characters from different stories.

Writing-We will write about our New Year’s resolutions as well as kick off our Opinion writing unit.

Phonics: We will learn about the long vowels sounds a and i with a silent e as in skate and nine.

Have a Wonderful Week!

 

Reminders:

• There will be no written homework this week! Enjoy reading holiday themed books with your sweet children!
• Please have your children practice reciting their holiday wish this week at home. This is a wish that we wrote as a class and will be reciting for the 1st and 2nd grades on Friday, December 21st: “Mrs. Fernandes’ class wishes a happy life for everyone with healthy food, clean water, safe shelter and people who love them. Happy Holidays!”
• Thursday and Friday are Early Release Days!

Math– We will wrap up our  unit on true/false equations and will have an assessment at the end of the week.

Reading- I will be completing all reading assessments for the second quarter and we will be reviewing all reading skills and strategies we have learned this year.

Writing-We will write about creative ways to catch a gingerbread man.

Phonics: We will play fun games to review phonics words of the year so far.

Have a Wonderful Week!

 

 

 

 

 

Reminders:

• We will be going to the ILC on Wednesday this week. Please send in your child’s library books. We can’t go on Tuesday this week due to S.T.E.A.M.

What We’re Learning: 

Math– We will be moving on to identifying equal equations. For example: 6+4=7+3. Student will have to identify equations as true or false. 3+6=5+4 is a True statement. 2+7=8+2 is a False Statement. I will teach students to solve each side before comparing.

Reading- This week I will start Q2 Reading Assessments. We will also continue reading fun, holiday themed books while reviewing all of the reading skills we have learned so far this year: Characters, Setting, Beginning, Middle, End, Asking Questions, Main Idea and Author’s Purpose.

Writing-We will be writing “How To” books about making gingerbread cookies. This will culminate our Informational Writing unit. Students have done a very nice job writing teaching and how to books this quarter. 

Phonics-We will be reviewing all the phonics skills that we learned in Q2: blends and digraphs.

Social Studies-We will be wrapping up our unit on Thomas Jefferson. We will finish our teaching books about him and all of his contributions.

S.T.E.A.M. Students will be creating their own versions of The Gingerbread Man by creating their own characters, refrain, and ending. They will be creating their characters out of supplies and will then act out their versions with musical instruments of their choice.

Have a Wonderful Week!