Week 13

This week was filled with amazing accomplishments. We finally displayed our persuasive posters for all of Memorial to enjoy.

In addition to completing this guided writing project, we wrote about the Best "Gingerbread" story too!


This independent project began as a way for us to assess how much the children understood how to persuade and ended as a published piece. They are terrific!!! Here are a few. I will be sending them home next week for you to enjoy.

Thank you to Aaron and Joseph who donated books to our class from the book fair. We are excited to use these book for our January theme, ocean animals.
In Phonics: 

• Letter writing, sound association for v,w,x, & y. We are almost through all of the lowercase letters

In Phonological Awareness:

• On set and rime continued, see last weeks blog. Listening for beginning and ending sound in words.

In Reading: 

• We spent more time comparing gingerbread stories and noticing repeated text. These stories were similar in many ways which helped us focus on predicting outcomes and character traits. 

In Math:

• We completed Unit 6, number patterns to 100.  Again, a very challenging unit. We are going to spend next week both reviewing teen numbers and looking for patterns. It is helpful if parent utilize any opportunity to identify or write numbers to 100. Practice counting by 1's from any number and practice counting by 10's. 

Guiding Questions:

How do you show family you care about them? 

Why is it important to ask questions?

How were the Gingerbread Baby and Gingerbread Friends similar? 

How were they different? 

If you were the conductor of a train where would you go? Why? 

Count by 2's to 20. 

Important Books: