Here is what we are learning about this week:

Sight Words: are, here & little

Our Centers this week:

Poetry: Guess What?

Pocket Chart: Short vowel sounds

Word Work: Digraphs (th, sh & ch)

Writing: Cut apart sentences

Lightbulb Station: Beginning and ending sounds as well as short vowel sounds.

Art Station: They are creating their own winter snowman picture and writing a sentence about it.

Technology: Symbaloo & Starfall

iPads: Literacy games and writing sight words using magnetic letters.

Math: Continuing measurement and Greater Than, Less Than and Equal to

Penmanship: Working on forming letters H – K.

Writing: Completing out winter stories and using transition words (first, next, then and finally). Also reminding students to start sentences with capital letters and use appropriate spacing in between words (finger spacing) and placing punctation at the end of the sentence ( . ! ?).

Interactive Writing: Acrostic Poems and Rhyming Poems

Science: We are studying rocks this week. Your child may bring rocks to class and we will discuss the different rocks. Friday we will sort the different rocks by size, color, texture and shape.