Week of January 17-20, 2017

Reading: The title of this week's story is "Then and Now." It is a non-fictional story that emphasizes how things we use today are different from things used long ago. This selection provides great opportunities for developing lists, composing meaningful word groups, and demonstrating words for opposites. We will also practice how to draw conclusions in a story. The amazing words presented will be: gears, webcams, phonographs, headphones, handwritten, and newspapers. The sight words we will focus on are: they, you, and of.
Phonics: The letter of the week is Oo. The children will work with the short /o/ sound, as in hop, as well as the long /o/ sound, as in hope.

Math: We will continue to work on Topic 5, "Numbers to 20." In this unit we count, read, and write numbers 11-20. (Please keep practicing writing the numbers 0-20 at home, along with counting to 100. We have some students who met both goals already!)

Reminders:
~ Monday, 1/16/17, is a teacher in-service day. There is no school for students.

~ Friday, 1/20/17 will be a dress down day. A donation of $1.00 is required to wear  

    jeans or sweatpants.
~ Please remember to practice sight words daily. (Our goal is 96 words!)

 Specials:
Tuesday- Art    Wednesday- Gym    Thursday- Music     Friday- Computers
Have an outstanding week!

          ~ Mrs. Green