January 13-17, 2020 

Reading: The title of this week's story is "Then and Now." This non-fictional story emphasizes how things we use today are different from things used long ago. We will practice how to draw conclusions in a story. We will also work on developing meaningful word groups when writing sentences. 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: Unit 3 continues this week. This unit compares and orders numbers from 0 through 20. Students are creating groups that have 1 or 2 more, as well as 1 or 2 fewer. We are also putting random numbers in correct order.

Reminders:

~ Friday, January 17^th is a dress down day. Students may provide a $1.00 donation in order to wear a Spartan shirt with jeans or sweatpants.

~ Please continue to practice sight words daily. The children are doing a great job reading these words in stories!

~ Also continue to practice letter sounds, segmenting words (cat- /k/, /a/, /t/), and blending sounds to read words.

~ Math skills to practice include: counting to 100, reading and writing 0-20, identifying 2D and 3D shapes.