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Hi Parents!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Here is what’s going on next week: Next Week is exceptional children’s week which include theme days. Please see below: Monday, March 1st- Read Across Fulton Day We will celebrate our reading successes across Fulton County. On this day, students are invited to wear the colors red, white, or blue to celebrate reading across Fulton County. Chef Reggie will be serving breakfast for lunch. Students will participate in reading activities, have virtual guest readers, as well as diversity reader who will focus on one area of diversity through age-appropriate literature. Tuesday, March 2nd- Crazy Apparel Day Express yourself by wearing a crazy hat and or crazy socks! Wednesday, March 3rd- Healthy Choices Day We will focus on making healthy life choices. Healthy options will be available for both breakfast and lunch! Thursday, March 4th-Follow your Dream What career do you dream of having when you grow up? Dress for your future career! Friday, March 5th- Superhero Day Dress like your favorite superhero!
In math, I will continue assessing students on our pre assessment for addition and subtraction and post assess for our unit on measurement during small group time. For the measurement post assessment, students need to know how to order objects by length, use and understand the vocabulary below for each type of measurement, identify data in graphs and write the number of objects, sort, count, and order, know ten pennies equal a dime, and count to 80 by 1’s and 10’s. Length-long and short Height-tall and short Weight-heavy and light Capacity-holds more and holds less Size- big and small On Wednesday during our hooks and mini lessons, we will begin our next unit on addition and subtraction. We will focus on addition first. We will discuss that addition is when we put two numbers together (addends) to get a bigger number which is the sum. We will work on making different combinations that equal 10. Students will first use 2 different colors of cubes- blue and red, for example. Students will start with 0 blue cubes and 10 red cubes to represent 0+10=10. Then, 1 blue cube and 9 red cubes, 2 blue cubes and 8 red cubes……. All the way to 10 blue cubes and 0 red cubes. Students will need to fluently know the combinations that make 10 so this is something good to practice at home. We will also begin talking about the strategies we can use to help us solve addition problems. The first strategy we will cover next week is drawing pictures. You can give students an addition problem at home and have them draw pictures to find the sum. Here are the standards for our next unit: MGSEK.CC.1Count to 100 by ones and by tens.MGSEK.OA.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. MGSEK.OA.3Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation. (drawings need not include an equation). MGSEK.OA.5Fluently add and subtract within 5. MGSEK.OA.4For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. MGSEK.OA.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. MGSEK.MD.3Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. MGSE1.MD.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. MGSE1.NBT.7Identify dimes, and understand ten pennies can be thought of as a dime. (Use dimes as manipulatives in multiple mathematical contexts.) Please make sure students practice counting by 1’s and 10’s to 100 every night if needed. For students who have mastered this standard, you can practice counting by 1’s to 200 and/or skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, etc. In ELA, we will continue with our Lucy Calkins reading and writing units of study. In reading, we will discuss that readers can respond to the text by reading the words then using the pictures to learn even more information. They say things like, “The words say_____. I also see ______ in the picture and it makes me think__________. We will also go back and review some strategies we have used so far in this unit like thinking, “How does this page fit with the title?” They also stop midway to think, “How do all these pages fit together so far?” After reading, the stop again to think, “What is the WHOLE book mostly about?” We will discuss that when readers are learning about something, they read everything they can about the topic. They read many books about the topic of interest and then retell everything they learned. When we read more than one book about a topic, we can also compare and contrast the books and what information/nonfiction text features there are. In phonics, we will be reviewing “oo” as in tooth and “oo” as in foot. We will also review “magic e” words (words that have a vowel and an e at the end- the e is silent and the vowel says its name: like, mile, lane, tube, gate, etc. For read aloud, we will be reading “Caring for your Lion” and connect this to our how-to writing unit. Students will work on making text-to self connections. In writing, we will continue our "How-To" writing unit. Students will look back through their how-to books and find one about a topic that they especially love. Then, they’ll think if they can turn that book into a series by writing another how-to book that is related to their first. They might even start 2 or 3 more books to make their series. A series could have titles like the following: How to Play Baseball, How to Play Football, and How to Play Soccer. These are all in the same series because they are all about playing a sport. Students will also work on rereading and improving an introduction in an old how-to book, or by adding an introduction to all their how-to books. Students will switch back and forth between writing and reading as they use strategies like writing a letter for each sound, using spaces between words, putting a period at the end of every sentence, using capital letters, and making pictures that help with the words in order to make their writing as easy to read as possible. They will also write a dedication for at least one of their how-to books. They’ll think of who might read their book, whether it is someone who loves their topic or someone who doesn’t know much about it. In science, we will continue our unit on animals and habitats. We will learn about the arctic and ocean habitats and discuss extinct and endangered animals. With this, we will discuss the importance of saving habitats by reducing, reusing, recycling, and so much more! We will also begin talking about different ways we can research an animal such as using Kiddle, Safari Montage, BrainPop Jr., Mackinvia, and books! This will prepare us for our animal research that is coming up soon. As always, please let me know if you have any questions! Alexis
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