Week 9 Q2

 




Dear families,

We are celebrating all the knowledge students learned this first semester. This week and next week, we are finalizing our assessments. Perseverance is one virtue students are practicing to wrap up the semester.

I really appreciate all your help!

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Spalding: Two letter phonograms PH, AI, OA, KN, were introduced. Remember to underline the two letter phonograms. This marking states that these are two letter phonograms making one sound. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (we, an, my, up). This week, we are conducting our cumulative test for the second quarter. This test will continue next week.

Reading reminders:

  • Your child should read to an adult as daily homework.
  •  Practice sight words as daily homework. Assessments on Wednesdays.
  • Minimal goal by the end of second quarter, master 36 sight words. (5 sight words a week), but the sky is the limit!

Literature: Our poem this week was “Old King Cole”! On Monday we read “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel”. We reviewed the parts of a book, and the steam shovel parts. Students made puppets for the characters and then practiced how to retell the story. We worked with the story elements, on our journals, and introduced the saying “Look Before You Leap”.

Math: This week, students learned how to make and break apart numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5. We used linking cubes to model with hands on activities, wrote the number, practice how to count, and all the different combinations to make certain number.

Science: Students had so much fun being scientists! We started out living and non-living things unit! On Monday, students compare two worms, one alive, and one fake. We had so much fun observing earthworms crawling in our classroom! Please ask your child about it. All week we were studying the characteristics of living and non-living things.

History/Geography: For history, we continued our study of Native American Tribes. We discovered the Jingle Dance, and tried to dance just like that! 


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