*REACH* Leadership Academy: Look into our week: Unit 5 wk 6 (4/22-4/26)

Good morning parents and guardians,

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Please help me reinforce the following hand signals and rules:

Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)

1 finger: restroom

Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.

2 fingers:water

Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name

3 fingers: pencil

Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one

4 fingers: tissue

when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away

5 fingers: question

question for me to give more information on

Classroom rules:

#1: Listen while the teacher is talking

#2: Follow directions quickly

#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand

#5: Keep your hands to yourself

#6: Keep your dear teacher happy

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.

School News:

Parent HUB link:
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4/22: T3 progress reports sent home

4/23: 2019-2020 Student lottery

4/26: Tk/k house competitions

5/10: Muffins with moms in the mpr

End of year events for our class:
ABC Countdown

Here is a look into our week

Songs to practice at home:

Syllable song

Beginning Sound Song

Exercise Beginning Sounds

Letter sounds

Count to 100

Count by 10s

Language Arts: Unit 5-week 6

Theme: Transportation-air
Story of the week: "Roaring Rockets"
Poem of the week: "I'm a little rocket"

Letter(s) of the week: Yy and Qq

Home activities: Look for the letter(s) Yy and Qq (in all types of fonts)

Draw pictures that begin with Yy and Qq
Sound out blend CVC words (determine if real or silly)

yug, yux, yub, yug, yab, yuz, yud, yun
qug, qux, qum, qug, qab, qud, qun, qip

Songs:

Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)

Song we review in class: Parts of a story song
This week's focus: draw conclusions

High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by "seeing" them)

This week's words: where, come, because
Songs

Math: Chapter 12-Numbers to 100

TEST: Thursday
Students will be able to count to 100 in different ways

count by 5s and 10s

Students will be able to count to 100 using tens and ones
Students will be able to find missing numbers to 100
Songs

Science: DINOSAURS

Students will be able to describe and name different dinosaurs
Students will begin to get ready for STEAM Expo

Writing: The Writing house

Write a sentence that contains a WHO, WHAT, WHERE, when and WHY

Exp: The cat can run at the park at 5 o'clock because he wanted to run around.
Exp: A girl is running to her house at 10 o'clock because she needed to do her homework.
write letters in correct part of house
do 5 point check