Week in Review ~ November 13th - 17th

With last week's short week due to Teacher PD and the Veterans Day holiday on Friday we worked on both Unit 2 Week 3 and Unit 3 Week 1 between the two weeks in ELA.  In Unit 2 Week 3 we reviewed the letters Mm, Aa, Ss, Tt and Pp and the sight words learned so far.  We listened to the story "I Love Bugs." Our vocabulary words were curious, observe, process, slender, and attaches. We also learned all about the life cycle of the butterfly. 
This week, in Unit 3 Week 1, our essential question was "What rules do we follow in different places?" Our vocabulary words were rules, cooperate, guard, prank and responsible.  We listened to the stories "How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?", "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "Be Safe!" We focused in on the letter Ii and introduced the sight word to. We also continued to talk about action verbs and named different action words. In learning centers we practiced writing the letter Ii, sorted lowercase and uppercase Ii, sorted pictures by their middle sound (either /a/ as in cat or /i/ as in pig), practiced our sight words,  wrote in our journals about rules we follow at school, and matched words that rhymed. 

In Math we continued working with Topic 3 where we are counting, reading and writing numbers 6 - 10.  Please continue to practice writing these numbers at home. 

As some reminders...

Next Monday and Tuesday are half days for students due to parent/teacher conferences. Dismissal will be at 11:30 am. Lunch will be served on the half days at 8:55 am for kindergarten.  If you would like your child to just have a snack at that time please send that in with them.  

Tuesday, November 21st is the Jump Rope for Heart event with Mrs. Bernard.  PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD WEAR SNEAKERS ON TUESDAY!

There is no school on Wednesday as that is the start of our Thanksgiving Break.  Due to the short week next week there will not be a Week in Review on the Blog. I hope everyone has a restful and wonderful Thanksgiving with their loved ones.