This week 1/13-1/17..

Good evening parents and guardian, 

Here is a recap of our week, as well as some other school related information.

Language Arts:

     Unit 3-Week 4-"Farfallina and Marcel"

     Objectives:

• Content Knowledge: How Animals Change
• Phonemic Awareness: Initial /f/
• Phonics: /f/ Spelled Ff
• Comprehension Skill: Plot
• 3 week assessments taken last week but sent home today
• Student were given a list of 10 CVC words and 5 sight words (High frequency words-HFW)
• CVC words were out of 5 (1 point per sound), Sight words (HFW) out of 1
• Scoring for CVC words
• Read word with no hesitation-5
• Read word but  sound out each letter sound individually then blend-4
• Read sounds in word but do not blend word or say wrong word-3
• Say only sound of letters in word-1 point per sound

Math:

• Finish up Unit 8- Weight
• Comparing weight of items (Exp: Which is lighter? Which is heavier?)
• Comparing items, equal to the same weight (Exp: The spoon is as heavy as ___ cubes")
• TEST this Wednesday
• Begin Unit 10- Comparing sets of objects
• Students will be able to say that two sets of things, shown in pictorial form, are equal in size
• Students will be able to compare two sets of things, given in concrete and pictorial forms, and say which set has more things

Science:

• Continue with Chapter 4- Plants and animals
• This week we will be covering
• How plants change (Today)
• How do people change (Tomorrow)
• What are some plants and animals that live on land?

DIBELS/MID YEAR TESTING

• This Thursday and Friday, students will be taking their benchmark exam (It will be one day or the other, not both days).
• Here is some information that may be helpful, but feel free to look up anything else or email me if you have any questions.

Android Tablet Apps:

• Preschool and Kindergarten
• Kindergarten kids math lite
• Kindergarten kids words lite
• Kindergarten games
• Kindergarten sight words free
• Kids reading (preschool) free
• Kids ABC letters lite
• Kids numbers and math lite

As always if you have any questions or would like more information on anything please feel free to contact me. I would be more than happy to help and If I don't have the information to your question I will try my best to point you in the right direction.

Thank you for all that you do and always working with your kids at home

Have a great rest of the day, 

Miss. Maciel