This Week's Story:  The Night Worker

Amazing Words:  engineer, construction, foreman, hard hat, street sweeper, beacons.

Comprehensions strategy:  Plot,

Phonemic concept:  Connect /u/ to U

Review high-frequency words

Grammar:  Introduce questions

Homework:  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.   Check folders each night.  Return the following day.

This week we will begin Chapter 12:  Classifying and sorting data.

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Mid chapter test is Wednesday. 

This week we will focus on short vowel e and review all vowels.

This Week's Story:  Building Beavers

Amazing Words:  beaver, lodge, paddle, river, stream, lake

High Frequency Words:  Review with, that, come, where, the

Grammar:  Introduce telling sentences, review adjectives

Phonemic awareness:  reteach /e/

Reading Comprehension concept:  Main idea

Homework:  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Please check your child's folder each night.

This week we will continue focusing on long and short vowel sounds.

This week, we will continue learning about measurement.

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

This week we will learn about 3 dimensional shapes (solids)

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Test:  Tuesday

This Week's Story:  Homes Around The World

Amazing Words:  home, roof, tools, apartment, city, country

High-Frequency Words:  Review:  the, a, is, said

Comprehension Skill:  Compare and Contrast

Phonetic Skill:  Reteach /a/ to /i/

Grammar:  Introduce verbs that add s

Homework:  Readers will be sent home periodically this week. Check folders daily.  Return book the following day.

TEST:  Unit 5 Test is Wednesday

This week we will continue to review short vowels. 

Practice Consonant, vowel, consonant words at home.

This week we will describe and draw hexagons.  

We will join shapes together to make new shapes.

We will compare two-dimensional shapes 

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

This Week's Story:  This is the Way We Go to School

Vocabulary words:  cable car, trolley, horse-and-buggy, skis, Metro line, vaporetto

Reading Comprehension skill:  Drawing conclusions

High-Frequency Words:  Review:  where, come

Phonemic concept:  Letters Yy and Qq

Grammar:  Verbs

Homework:  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.   Check folders daily.

This week, we will identify, describe, and name triangles And rectangles.

Test Thursday.

Homework will be sent home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

This Week's Story: The Little Engine That Could

Amazing Words:  engine, tracks, passenger, roundhouse, mountain, valley

Reading Comprehension Strategy:  Plot

Phonemic Awareness : Reteach /u/

high Frequency Words:  what, said, was

Grammar:  Inrtroduction to nouns

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week. Check folders each night.

This week's story:  Messenger Messenger

Amazing Words:  messenger, delivery, radios, pickup, escalator, eyeshades

Reading comprehension skill:  Compare and contrast

Phonenic Awareness Skill:  introduce /u/

High frequency words:  what, siad, was

Grammar:  Introduce dates

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Check folders each night.  Return the following day

This week we begin Chapter 9.

Concept: Identifying and describing 2 dimensional shapes.  This week's focus will be circles and squares.

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

This week we will focus on letter Zz and it's sound.

Please reveiw all letters and sounds at home.

Practice blending sounds to make simple words.

This week's letter focus is letter Yy.

Please continue to reviewe all letters and sounds at home.

Students should be sounding out simple words by now.  Please continue to practice this at home.

This week we will work on counting to 100 by 1's and 10's.

Test Friday

Homework:  Check folders this week.  Homework will be sent home Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday

This week's story:  Mayday, Mayday!

Amazing words:  rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering

High-frequency words:  Reteach yellow, blue, green

Comprehension Skill:  Cause and effect

Phonic Awareness skill:  Introduce /ks/ and connect to letter Xx

Grammar:  Introuce question marks and uppercase letters

Homework:  Read every night.  Readers will be in folders this week.  Read and return the following day.

This week we will work on comparing numbers to 20.

Homeowork:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

This week's letter focus is letter Xx.

Students will be expected to recognize letter Xx and its sound.

Stucents will be exptect to recognize all letters and sounds.

Students should be sounding out simple words.  Please practice this at home.

This week's story:  Max Takes the Train

Comprehension Skill:  Realism and Fantasy

Phonemic awareness skill:  /l/

Amazing words:  plane, jetway, subway, tunnel, ferryboat, sidecar

High-frequency words:  Introduce yellow, blue, green

Homework:  Read each night.  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Read and return the following day.

This week's focus letter is letter Ww.

Please review all letters at home.

Practice sounding out simple words.

This week's story:  Abuela

Amazing words:  abuela, adventure, flock, city, airport, harbor

Comprehension strategy:  setting

Phonics skill:  reteach /e/

High frequency words:  here, go, from

Grammar:  Introduce the pronoun I, review periods and uppercase letters

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Read at home and return the folloiwng day

Test Friday on Unit 4

This week we begin chapter 8 which focuses on representing, counting, and writing 20 and beyond.

Homework will be sent home this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Please return homework the following day.

This week's letter is letter Vv.

Homework:  Review all letters and sounds. Practice sounding out simple words.

This week will focus on counting, writing, and modeling numbers 16-19.

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

Test Friday

This Week's Story:  If You Could Go To Anarctica

Amazing Words: Anarctica, continent, icebergs, penguins, seals, whales

High Frequency Words:  introduce here, go, from 

Comprehension Skill:  classify and categorize

Phonemic Awareness Skill: /e/

Homework:  read each night, return readers the follonight day.

This week's letter focus is letter Uu.

Please practice all letters and sounds at home.

Students should be sounding out words by now.  Please practice this at home to increase reading fluency.

This Week's Story:  Goldilocks and The Three Bears

Amazing Words:  bears, porridge, big, cottage, middle-sized, small

High frequency Words:  Review:  one, two, three, four, five

Comprehension skill:  Character

Phonic skill:  /g/

Grammar:  Introduce telling sentences

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week periodically.  Please check folders each night.  Readers should be returned to school the following day.

This week's story:  One Little Mouse

Amazing Words:  woodland, vale, nest, hollow, comfortable, shadows

High-Frequency Words:  Introduce one, two, three, four, five

Comprehension skill:  sequency

Phonemic Awareness Skill:  Consonant blends

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Please check folders each night.  Readers should be returned the following day.

This week's letter focus is letter Tt.

Homework:  Practice all letters and sounds (recognition and blending sounds)

Students should be reading simple words at this point.  Please continue to work on reading fluency at home.

This week we will continue to work on recognizing and counting numbers above 10. 

Work on recognizing numbers and number words at home.

Homework:  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

This week's Story:  My Lucky Day

Amazing words:  piglet, fox, lucky, filthy, cook, scrubber

High-Frequency Words:  do, are, that

Comprehension Concept:  Cause and Effect

Grammar:  Introduce action parts.  Review naming parts

Homework:  Read every night.  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Read together and return the following day.

This week's letter focus is letter Ss.

Practice letter Ss and all letter sounds.

Students should be reading simple words by now.  

Please practice sounding out words each night to increase reading fluency.

This week we will begin working with numbers 11-19.

Homework will be sent home on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

This week's letter is letter Rr.  

Students will complete work with letter Rr and its sound this week.

Homework:  Please complete the recipe sheet that will be sent home on Monday.  All should be sent back to school by Friday.  

Continue to practice letters and sounds at home.  Practice blending letters to make simple words.  

This Week's Story:  Bunny day

High Frequency Words:  do, are, that

Comprehension Skill:  sequence

Grammar:  Naming parts

Amazing words:  chores, tidy, bustle, hungry, story, race

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Please read at home and return to school the following day.

Students should read at home each night to improve fluency.

We are still working on subtraction.  

TEST FRIDAY

Please practice at home using this week's homework sheets as a guide.

Homework:  We will have homework every night this week in order to prepare for the test.  

This week's letter is letter Q.

Homework:  Let your child bring in a quilt and tell him/her the story behind the quilt so he/ she can share with the class.

Students should know all letters and sounds.  Letter of the week is a review.  Please practice blending these sounds into words at home.

This week we continue with subtraction.

TEST ON TUESDAY

Homework will be sent home on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday

This week's story is Hide Clyde.

Amazing Words:  Chameleon, jungle, hide, skin, pattern, scampered

High frequency words:  they, you, of

Comprehension skill:  Main idea

Grammer:  writing sentences

Homework:  Please read each night

Readers will be coming home this week.  Check folders each night.

We will have a Chapter 3 test on Friday

This Week's Story:  Seeds

High Frequency Words:  they, you, of

Amazing Words:  seeds, pod, roots, stem, pit, sprouts

Comprehension skill:  Draw Conclusions

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Please check folders each day.  Readers will need to be back at school the following day.

We will begin subtraction this week.

Homework:  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

All homework should be returned the following day.

This week's letter of the week:  Letter Oo

Please review all letters and sounds at home.  

Practice sounding out simple words.

All students should be able to sound out simple 3 letter words.  Please practice this at home.

This Week's Story:  Farfalina and Marcel

Amazing Words:  goose, gosling, caterpillar, butterfly, reflection, cocoon

Comprehension skill:  Plot

High-frequency words:  see, look

Phonemic awareness:  introduce /f/

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week periodically.  Please check folders and return all readers the following day.

Homework:  Monday:  Study for test on addition

TEST ON TUESDAY

This week we will begin subtraction.

Homework will be sent home on Wednesday.

This week focus letter is letter Oo.

Please review the letter Oo and it's sound. 

Review all letters and sounds at home.

Your child should be sounding out simle words at home.  Practice this each night.

This Week's Story:  See How We Grow

Vocabulary Words:  twins, newborn, crawl, walk, children, babies

High Frequency Words:  see, look

Phonics skill:  Connect /d/ to Dd

Comprehension Skill:  Cause and Effect

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Please check folders daily.  All readers should be returned the following day.

This week we will be adding pairs to number to equal sums or 8, 9, and 10.

Please practice adding numbers at home with missing addends.

EXAMPLE:  9+__=10

              __+__=8

             7=___+___

Homework:  Check folders Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday for homework

Friday:  Test on adding numbers to 10.  Study adding with missing addends.

This week we will focus on letter Nn.

Practice all letters and their sounds.

Practice reading / sounding out simple words.

This week's Story:  Little Quack

High-frequency words:  review me, like,

Amazing words:  duckling, pond, paddle, brave, plunged, proud

Comprehension skill:  Preview and predict, real and fantasy, plot

Homework:  Read daily.  Readers will be in folders.  Read and return the next day.

We will continue with Chapter Five:  Addition sentences.

Homework:  Practice writing addition sentences at home from 0 to 10.

Homework will be sent home this week.  Check folders each night.

Letter of the Week:  Mm

Practice writing and sounding out words with letter Mm

We will continue practicing addition word problems to 5. 

No homework will be sent home this week.

Continue to practice addition at home.

We will review this week. 

Continue to practice all letters and souads at home.

We will not have a reading story this week.

Continue to practice reading at home. Work on sounding out simple words at home.

This Week's Story:  Little Panda

Amazing Words:  weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, explore

Phonetic Awareness:  Letter Nn and it's sound

Comprehension skill:  Compare and contrast

Grammer:  Introduce verbs, review adjectives

Homework:  Read each night.  Readers will come home this week.  Return the following day

This week we begin chapter 5:  Addition

Monday:  Introduction:  Addition is adding to

Tuesday:  Addition means putting together

Wednesday:   Acting out addition problems

Thursday:  Hands on.  Model and draw addtion problems.

Homework:  Check fold each night for math homework.  All homework should be returned the following day.

This week's letter:  Review letter Ll and it's sound.

Homework:  Please review all letter sound at night.  Students should be able to read simple words.  Practice sounding out words each night. 

This Week's Story:  Whose Garden is it?

Vocabulary:  garden, gardener, plant, seed, soil, blossoms

High-frequency words:  he, for

Phonics awareness:  recognize I and it's sound

Comprehension skill:  Realism and fantasy

Grammar:  Adjectives

HOMEWORK:  Read daily.  Readers will be sent home this week.  All readers should be returned the following day.

Letter of the Week: Review letter K

HOMEWORK:  Practice recognizing all letters and be able to produce all letter sounds.

Students should be able to recognize all letters and should be able to sound out simple 3 letter words and all high frequency words.  Practice daily at home.

This week we will be finishing Chapter 4 in math.  

Our lessons will be focusing on representing and comparing numbers to 10.

MATH TEST ON FRIDAY.

HOMEWORK:  Homework will be sent home on Tuesday and Thursday.  Check folders.  Return the following day.

Letter of the Week:  Ii

Review letter I and it's sound. 

Review all letters and sounds.

Students should be practicing sounding out simplet words.

This Week's Story:  A Bed for Winter

Vocabulary:  meadow, nest, stump, tree trunk, hive, den

Letter of the week:  Hh

We will practice writing, recognizing, and reading letter Hh and H words.

Practice recognizing all letters at home.

Practice sounding out simple words.

Letter of the Week:  Gg

This week we will recognize and write letter G, and sound out words beginning with letter G.

Homework:  Review letter Gg and all letters.  Work on sounding out simple words.

This week we will model, count, and write numbers 8 and 9.

Homework:  Practice counting and recognizing numbers 0-9.

                 Look in folders each night for math homework.  All homework should be retuned the next day.

This week's story:  Armadillo's Orange

Amazing words:  Burrow, armadillow, grubs, insects, tortoise, rattlesnake

This Week's Story:  Life in an Ocean

Amazing Words:  ocean, world, crab, seaweed, shell, fish

High-frequency Words:  New Words:  have, is 

Review all words:  I, am, the, little, to, a, have, is.

Comprehension Skill:  Compare and Contrast.

Phonics skill: Connect /a/ to Aa

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week periodically.  Please check your child's folder each night and return readers the following day.

Letter of the Week:  Letter F

We will review letter Ff and it's sound.

HOMEWORK:  Your child should recognized all or almost all of their letters.  Please practice this at home.

                     Practice sounding out simple theree letter words (CVC).

We have started chapter 3.  Chapter 3 focuses on numbers 6-9.

We will be working on numbers 6-8 this week.  Practice counting and recognizing numbers 0-8 at home.

Homework:  Homework pages will be sent home this week.  Check folders daily and return the following day.  You and your child should sit together while he/she is doing this homework because directions are at the bottom of the page and you will want to make sure these directions are being followed.  Many homework sheets are being returned incomplete or completed wrong due to not following directions properly. Thank you for your help with this. 

This week's story:  Dig, Dig, Digging

Amazing Words:  gobbling, squelching, swooshingt, rumbling, spinning, scooping

Comprehension Concept:  Classify, categorize

High-Frequency Words:  to, a, I, am, little, the

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Return the following day.

Work on sounding out words.

This week we will finish up Chapter 2 which consisted of comparing numbers from 0 to 5.

TEST:  Wednesday on less than and greater than

We will start Chapter 3 this week also and focus on the number 6.

Check each night for Math homework. 

This week's letter:  Review letter Ee

Study all letters and sounds at home.  Students should be able to name most letters if not all of them. 

Practice sounding out simple words.

Read each night.

This week's story:  Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip

Amazing Words:  fire station, library, chaperone, post office, park, bakery

High Frequency Words:  the, little, I, am

Letter Naming:  Review all letters Aa-Zz

Comprehension Skill:  Categorize, classify

Homework:  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Check folders each night.

Test Wednesday:  Review numbers to 5.  Review ways to make 5 (example:  3 and 2, 1 and 4).  Review number order to 5. 

This week we will finish up chapter 1 and begin chapter 2.

Work on comparing numbers to five.

Homework:  Homework will be sent home this week.  Check folders each night.  Use Tuesday nights homework to review for the test on Wednesday.

This week we will practice and review letter Cc.

Work on recognizing all letters at home.  Work on letter sounds. 

This week we will be working on counting to 5, recognizing the number words to 5, and adding to and breaking apart 5 objects. 

Homework:  Check folders daily.  Homework will be sent home this week.  All homework should be returned the following day.

This week's story:  Plaidypus Lost

Amazing Words:  around, platypus, lost, found, market, groceries,

Comprehension concept:  Sequence

High frequency words:  Review:  I, am

                                 Introduce:  the, little

Letter Recognition:  Review letters A-N.  Introduce letters O-R

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Check foders daily.  All readers should be returned the following day.

This week's letter is letter Bb.

Homework:  Review all letters and their sounds at home.

Work on writing name using correct letters and using capital letters at the beginning of the name only.

This week we will count and write numbers 3 - 5. 

Tuesday:  Mid Chapter Test

Homework:  Check folders daily for math homework.  This shoud be returned the next day.

This week's story:  Fix It Duck

Amazing Words:  repair, leak, steep, ladder, puddles, shed

Comprehension skill:  Setting

Phonological Awareness Skill:  syllables

Letter Recognition:  Introduce Ff and Gg.  Review A-E

High Frequency Words:  Review    I, am

Homework: Check folder each night for readers.   Please return these the following day

*****How to read at home:  You read, read together, child reads individually.

This week we begin our reading series called Reading Street.  Check your child's folder daily for readers that are sent home.  Readers should be read at home and returned to school the next day.

Monday-Friday

This week's story:  The Night Worker

Phonemic Concept:  Reteach Uu

Comprehension Skill:  plot

Vocabulary:  High frequency words:  Review with, what, a, do, to, the

Homework:  Read daily.  Check folders for readers. Return the following stay.

Classifying objects into categories.count objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

Mid chapter test is Thursday.

This week's story:  Building Beavers

Review High-Frequency Words:  with, that, come, where, the

Amazing Words:  beaver, lodge, paddle, river, lake, stream

Comprehension Skill:  main idea

Phonics Skill:  connect /e/ to e

Homework:  check folders daily for readers. Read orally and return the following day.

READ EACH NIGHT

This week we will continue to compare lengths, heigh, and weight of objects.

Mid chapter test is Wednesday.  

This week's story:  Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop.

High Frequency Words Review:  here, go, with, little, do, what, the

Comprehension Skill:  Character

Phonemic Awareness:  Reteach /o/

Homework:  Read daily

Readers will be sent home this week periodically.  Check folders and return readers the next day.

This Week's Story:  Homes Around the World

Amazing Words:  home, roof, tools, apartment, city, country

Phonics:  Connect /a/ to A and /i/ to I

High Frequency Words:  Review:  the, a, is, said

Comprehension Skill:  Compare and Contrast

Homework:  Readers will be sent home this week.  Check your child's folder daily and return the next day.

Practice reading each night.  Your child should be able to sound out simple words and reading fluency should be improving.

We will begin learning about comparing objects by length, height.

Mid-Chapter Test will be Thursday.

This week's letter; Zz

Homework; Monday-cut out pictures beginnging with letter Z.

Review all letters and sounds.

Practice blending simple words. 

This week's story: This is the Way We Go to School

Phonemic Awareness: Y and Q

Comprehension Skill: Draw conclusions

Vocabulary: Review high-frequency words clear, come

Homework: Readers will be sent home periodicaly this week. Check folders daily. Readers must be returned the following day.

This week we continue to review two and three-dimensional shapes.

Friday:  Test on two and three-dimensional shapes.  Students should know the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.  They should know how many flat surfaces each has, which will stack, and which have curves surfaces.  Students must know these three-dimensional shapes:  cylinder, sphere, cone, and cone.

This week we will review letter Yy and it's sound.

Students  should know all letters and sounds and be able to blend them into words Easily.  Please review all letters and practice blending.

Monday Homework:  cut out pictures that begin with Y.

Monday-Friday: recognizing and differentiating between flat shapes and 3 dimensional shapes.

Practice using terms such as "below" and " directly below," "beside" and "next to," "in front of" and "behind."

This week's Storey:  On the Move

Phonemic Awareness:  Vv, Zz

Comprehension skill:  Main idea

High Frequency Words:  Introduce new words:  where, come

Writing:  Basic punctuation

This week we will be observing our bean plants and adding to our terrarium.

Review letter X and its sound. 

Review all letters and sounds

Monday: Homework:  cut out pictures that have an x. The sec pictures do not have to begin with x.

Monday-Friday

This week's story:  The Little engine that Could

Comprehension skill:  Plot

Amazing Words:  engine, trackpassé serger, roundhouse, mountain,valley 

high frequency words:  what, said, was

Homework:  Read each night.  Check folders each night for readers. Return the next day.

Monday:  Chapter 9 test on shapes

Tuesday-Friday:  Introduce and practice with two and three dimensional shapes.

This week's reading story is Messenger, Messenger.

Skill:  Compare and Contrast

Introduce high-frequency words:  what, where, said

Phonemic awareness:  Practice letter Uu and its sound.

Homework:  Read daily

                  Readers will be sent home this week.  Please read at home and return the following day.

Letter of the week:  Ww

Homework:  Monday cut out pictures that begin with letter Ww and bring to school on Tuesday.

Review all letters and sounds.

Practice sounding out simple words.

Monday-Friday

Review letter Vv land it's sound.

Monday:  homework due. Cut out Vv pictures.

Practice all letters and sounds.

Practice sounding out simple words.

Monday-Friday

This week's story:  Mayday Mayday!

Comprehension skill:  Cause and eeffect phonetic concept:  Xx

High frequency words :  Yellow, blue, green

Homework:  Read each night.  Return readers to school the next day.

Review letter Uu and its sound.

practice writing and reading with letter Uu.

Homework: Monday cut out pictures that begin with letter Uu. Due on Tuesday.

Practice all letters and sounds.

Identify and name rectangles and hexagons.

This week's story:  Max Takes the Train

phonemic awareness:  /j/ and /w/

Comprehension skill:  realism and fantasy

High frequency words:  yellow, blue, green

Homework:  Read each night.  Readers will be sent home periodically this week. Read and return the next day.

Practice reading each night.

Letter Tt

We will review and practice writing and reading with letter Tt.

Homework:  Monday cut out pictures that begin with letter Tt.  Bring to school on Tuesday

Practice all letters and sounds.  Practice reading simple words.

Monday-Friday

This week's story: Abuela

Amazing words:  abuela, adventure, flock, city, airport, harbor

High frequency words (review):  from, here, go

Comprehension skill:  setting

HOMEWORK:

Please read every night.

Check folders for readers this week.  All readers are to be returned the next day.

Monday-Friday

This week we will work on recognizing and describing triangles and rectangles.

Mid chapter test is on Wednesday.

Monday-Friday

Letter Ss

We will review letter Ss and its sound. 

Practice writing letter Ss.

Homework:  Monday: Cut out pictures beginning with letter Ss.  Due on Tuesday.

                 Practice all letters and sounds.  

                 Practice reading and sounding out simple words.

Monday-Friday

This week's story:  If You Could Go To Antarctica.

Amazing words:  Antarctica, continent, seals, whales, icebergs, penguins

High frequency words:  go, here, from

Target skill:  classify and categorize

Phonetic skill:  Matching e to /e/

Homework: Read daily. Check folders for readers. All readers should be returned the next day.

This week we begin chapter nine in Go Math.

We wil begin learning about 2 dimensional shapes.

This week we will earn about circles, squares, and triangles.

This week's story:  Goldilocks and the Three Bears

High frequency words:  Reteach one, two, three, four, five

Comprehension skill:  character

Amazing words:  bears, porridge, cottage, big, middle-sized, small

Phonics:  /g/

Homework:  Read each night.  Check folders for readers. Return readers the next day. Practice reading simple words.

Practice recognizing, writing, and reading with the letter Rr.

Homework:  Monday:  Cut out pictures that begin with letter R.  Bring to school on Tuesday

***All students should know all letter sounds.  We focus on one letter a week, but we review all the letters and sounds daily.  Please be working on this with your child. Practice sounding out words daily.

One Little Mouse

High Frequency Words:  One, two, three, four, five

Comprehension Skill:  sequencing

Phonics:  consonant blends

Amazing Words:  woodland, nest, vale, hollow, comfortable, shadows

Homework:  Read 15 minutes each night.  Check folders each night for readers.  They will be sent home periodically.

Letter Qq

Review all letters and sounds.

Homework:  Practice sounding out simple words.

Monday:  Cut out pictures beginning with letter Qq.  Due on Tuesday.

Monday-Friday

Counting and writing numbers to 20. 

Putting numbers in order from 0-20.

Comparing numbers to 20 (greater than, less than)

Wednesday:  Mid chapter test.  Practice counting and writing numbers above 10 and comparing numbers (greater, less).

Counting to 50

Monday-Friday

Review letter Pp and it's sound. 

Review all letters

Practice sounding out simple words

Homework:  Monday night cut out pictures that begin with letter Pp

My Lucky Day

Comprehension skill:  Cause and effect

High frequency words:  Review do, are, that

Homework:  Read 15 minutes each night

                  Practice sounding out simple words

                  Readers will be sent home this week.  Check folders each night.

Mon-Fri

Review and practice letter O and its sound.

Review all letter sounds

Practice sounding out simple words.

Tuesday: Cut out pictures that begin with O.  Due Wednesday.

Bunny Day

Comprehension skill:  Sequence of events

High-frequency words:  do, that, are

Homework:  Read 15 minutes each night

                  Practice sounding out words

                  Check folders each night for readers.  Please return all readers the next day.

Hide Clyde!

Amazing words:  chameleon, jungle, pattern, skin, hide, scampered

Target Main idea

Reteach high-frequency words:  they, you, of

Grammar:  Introduce sentences

***Readers will be sent home periodically throughout the week.  Please check folders each night.

Monday night Homework:  cut out 1 or 2 pictures that beging with letter Nn.

Read each night

Practice reading and sounding out 3 letter words.

Review letter sounds each night.

Monday:  Using numbers to 15

Tuesday:  Model and count to 17 & MID CHAPTER TEST (couting and adding to 15)

Wednesday: Count and write 17 and 17

Thursday:  Model and count 18 and 19

Friday:  Count and write 18 and 19

This week's story:  SEEDS

Concepts covered:  Drawing conclusions, meaningful word groups

Amazing words:  seeds, pod, roots, stem, pit, sprouts

High frequency words:  they, you, of

HOMEWORK:  Read 15 minutes each night

This week's letter:  Mm

Introduce and practice letter Mm and its sound.

Homework:  Monday cut out pictures that begin with letter Mm

Review letters and sounds each night. 

Practice sounding out 3 letter words.

Monday:  Test on Chapter 6.  Subtraction.

Tuesday-Friday:  Begin chapter seven and practice representing, counting, and writing numbers 11-19.

Periodically during the week, homework will be sent home.  Please check your child's folder each night.

Thursday:  Check your child's folder.  Talk about family traditions at Christmas time.  Write down your family's Christmas tradition.  Send back to school.  We will share these on Friday.

Monday-Friday

Introduce Subtraction

We will do sections 6.1-6.5 in our workbooks this week.

Introduce terms "take away" and "minus."

Story:  As We Grow

Phonetic skill:  Dd and Kk

Comprehension skill:  Cause and effect

Amazing words:  twins, newborn, crawl, walk, children, babies

High-frequency words introduced:  see, look

**Read 15 minutes every night

***Look in your child's folder each night.  Readers will be sent home periodically this week.

HOMEWORK:  Monday cut out obecjects that begin with letter Kk

Review all letters and sounds.

Practice sounding out 3 letter words.

Monday-Friday

Practice additon and introduce subtraction

Thursday:  Math test:  addition

Little Quack

Introduce plot

More practice with high-frequency words

Introduce and practice Rr

**Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Check folders daily

**Practice reading each night.  Work on sounding out 3 letter words.

Introduce letter I and it's sound.

Homework:  Due Tuesday-Cut out 2 pictures that begin with letter Ii

Review all letters and sounds at home. 

Practice sounding out words that have 3 letters

Little Panda:

High Frequency words:  with, me, she

Vocabulary words:  weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, explore

Comprehension Skill:  compare and contrast

Homework:  Read daily

Readers will be sent home periodically this week. Check folders daily.

More practice with addition. 

Practice addition at home using numbers to equal 10 or less than 10.

Practice addition using missing numbers to equal 10. 

Examples:   

___ + 3 = 7

4 + ____ = 9

8 =  5 + ___

Tuesday-Friday:

More practice on addition using numbers to make 10 or less.  

Wednesday:  Mid-Chapter check point.

Monday-Friday:

Comprehension skill:  Realism and fantasy

Vocabulary:  garden, gardener, plant, seed, soil, blossoms

High Frequency words:  Reteach: he, for

**Practice reading every night.

**Practice sounding out 3 letter words every night.

**Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Check folders daily.

Monday-Friday:

Review letter Hh and it's sound.

Wednesday:  Bring in no more than 2 pictures that begin with letter Hh.

Continue to review letters and letter sounds at home.

Monday-Friday:

High-Frequency words:  he, for

Comprehension skill:  sequencing

Homework:

 Read each night

 Review high-frequency words:  the, little, to, am, is, I, he, for, have, a

**Periodically there will be readers coming home this week.  Check folders daily.

Monday-Friday

Chapter 4 assessment

Introduce addition as adding to. 

Introduce vocabulary words:  add, plus, equal

Monday-Friday:

Introduce letter G and it's sound.

Homework

Monday:  Cut out no more than 2 pictures that begin with letter G.

Review all letters and sounds  

Each night, practice sounding out 3 letter words.

Monday-Friday

Introduction and practice of letter Ff.

All week, bring in your Ff foods for CASA.

Homework is due on Tuesday:  Cut out pictures that begin with Ff.  Pictures only please.

Students should be practicing all their letters sounds at home.

Monday-Friday

High-Frequency words:  we, my, like

Skill:  Realism and fantasy

Phonics Skill:  Cc

All students should be reading daily at home each night

Readers will be sent home this week.  Please check folders each night.  Books should be returned the next day.

Monday-Friday

Counting, writing, and comparing numbers to 10.

Practice less than and greater than.

Monday-Friday:

Introduction to letter Ee and it's sound

Review all letters daily and their sounds

Monday night:  Cut out pictures that begin with letter E

Animal Babies in Grasslands

Monday-Friday

Introduce new high-frequency words:  we, like, my

Introduce vocabulary words:  cub, foal, grassland, pup, calf, joey

Homework:  Read every night.  Review high-frequency words every night

***Readers will be sent home periodically throughout the week.  Check folders daily.

We are working with numbers 0-10.  We are also adding numbers to make 10. 

Friday:  Mid-chapter check point.  Work on writing numbers, adding numbers,     and number sequence.

Monday-Friday

Phonics:  /s/

Comprehension skill:  setting

Review high-frequency words:  have, is, I, am, little, to, a, the

Grammar:  nouns (plural and proper)

**Readers will be sent home periodically throughout the week.  Check folders daily.

Monday-Friday:

Monday-Friday:

Review letter Dd and it's sound. 

Review all letters and sounds.

Practice putting 3 letters together to make a word.

Monday-Friday:

Monday:  Chapter 3 test

Tuesday-Friday:  Begin Chapter 4:  Represent and compare numbers to 10

This week's story:  Life in an Ocean

Amazing words:  ocean, crab, fish, world, shell, seaweed

New high-frequencey words:  have, is

**Readers will be sent home periodically throughout the week.  Check folders daily.

Introduce numbers 8 and 9

Chapter test next week on numbers 6-9

Introduce letter Cc and it's sound.

Homework Monday night:  Cut out no more than 2 Cc pictures.

Review all letters and sounds.

Dig, Dig, Digging:

Monday-Friday:

Introduction to letter Tt

Amazing words:  scooping, swooshing, squelching, gobbling, spinning, rumbling

Comprhensions skill:  classify and categorize

**Readers will be sent home periodically this week.  Please check folders daily.

Monday-Friday

Introduction to Bb and its sound.

Homework Monday:  Cut out 1 or 2 pictures that begin with letter Bb.

Review ALL letters and sounds.

Monday-Friday:

Introduce and practice writing and counting numbers 6 and 7.

Monday-Friday

Chapter 2 Test

Reviewing #5

Modeling and counting #6

Monday-Friday:

Target: Mm

Introduce: character

Introduce high frequency words:  to, a

Review high frequency words:  the, little, I, am

**Readers will be sent home throughout the week.  Check folders daily.  All

   readers should be returned the next school day.

Monday-Friday

Letter Aa:

Homework Monday:  Cut out 1 or 2 pictures that begin with letter A. (ex:  apple)

Practice letter A and all letters at home daily. 

Apple unit:

Monday-Wednesday

We will learn about Johnny Appleseed and do activities with apples.

Mon-Friday:  Introduction to colors black and brown

                   Review all shapes

Homework:  Tuesday:  Black homework due

                  Thursday:  Brown homework due

GO MATH:  Mon-Fri>  We will be comparing sets of objects up to 5 objects.

This week's story:  Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip

Monday-Friday

We will cover letters Tt-Zz this week. 

We will review our sight words:  the, little, I, am 

Homework:  Review all letters at home.

                  Read 15 minutes each night.

                  Review sight words

                  Readers will be sent home periodically throughout the week.  Check folders daily please.

Sight words:  I, am, to, the, little

Review all letters

Read 15 minutes every night

Check folders each night for readers.  All readers are to be read by the child to an adult, then returned the next day to school.

Review numbers to 5

Practice counting to  100

Review all colors

Review shapes:  Circle

HOMEWORK: 

Due Tuesday:  Orange pictures

Due Thursday:  Purple pictures

Practice Sight Words:  I, am, a, the, little, to

Review letters

Homework:  Wednesday-Yellow Homework due

                   Friday-Green Homeowork due

Introduction of rectangle and triangle

Go Math:  Counting objects to 5, practice writing numbers through 5.

Monday-Friday:

Go Math lesson 1.1-1.5:  Represent, Count, and Write numbers 0-5

Introduce:  Red, blue, circle, square

Homework:  Monday:  Cut out 1 red picture

                 Wednesday:  Cut out 1 blue picture