Reading: The children did very well with identifying our letter of the week, Cc, and its sound. They were also very successful in hearing the sound at the beginning of words. The most difficult part of our letter Cc unit was handwriting. I saw the same trend as we began our letter Oo unit last week. We will continue Unit 2: Oo throughout this upcoming week. Due to the struggles most children are having with handwriting, I will be sending handwriting homework home Monday and Wednesday this coming week. Monday's homework will be due by Wednesday and Wednesday's homework will be due by Friday. Please have your child complete homework with a pencil. Please have them erase and try again when they make mistakes. Practicing writing incorrectly will not help your child.
Math: We finally finished up our Geometry Shape Topics! We did spend one extra day building solid shapes out of sticks, straws and clay so we will test this topic 16 on Monday. I can add a photo of this activity on Monday. I left my iPad at school. Next up: Numbers! We will be focusing on the numbers 1-5 all week. Children will count sets of real objects, mark and count pictures on their papers, fill out graphs to show how many,and print the numerals.
Science: Next week we will tie in our studies of animals to our Reading theme of odd animals. In Science, children will learn about animal bodies, movement, habitats and needs. These lessons will be very general but we will focus in depth on bats on Tuesday.
Social Studies; We will wrap up our Red Ribbon Week lessons this week. Some high school students wrote some very nice letters explaining the healthy activities they like and giving advice to our youngest students. We will share some of these in class next week.
We were also very fortunate to win the Red Ribbon Week Poster Contest. The children did a great job creating their stars for our poster and we discussed having positive goals or Reaching for the Stars! Stay tuned to see what we've won!
Day 4: Library is Monday
Day 5: Music is Tuesday
Day 1: Gym is Wednesday
Day 2: PSSA is Thursday
Day 3: Art is Friday