Aquarium week

The ocean offers such an amazing variety of cool and interesting animals to learn about. Our class did an exceptional job navigating the aquarium. We saw sharks, eels, tropical fish and jelly fish. We touched sea stars, sting rays, lemon sharks and hermit crabs. We watched divers and scientist feed harbor seals and clean penguin habitats. It was awesome. Thanks you to the amazing chaperones who did a great job keeping a close eye on our class. We were an organized well behaved bunch!!!

New England Aquarium January 2016

                                               

Chaperones please email me any pictures you have, I would love to share more photos. 

In class this week...

Reading Comprehension: 

• Using pictures to gain knowledge
• Author's purpose as it applies to non fiction
• determining main idea 

Phonics: 

• Reading short vowel words, focus on short i. (review short a)
• Writing upper case letters including: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K

Sight Words: 

• I, can, go, to, the, a, be, she, you, my, we, up, in, and, so 

We will have a check in assessment at the end of next week. To inform both introduction and pace. 

Writing:

• Responding to nonfiction
• Determining importance from non fiction
• Writing a complete dictated sentences using a Capital letter to start and "mostly" lowercase thereafter. 

Math:

• Numbers and counting to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's. 
• Subtraction
• Story problems containing both addition and subtraction

Reminders: 

Blue folders return daily!

The weekly homework is a resource, please ask your child to tap and build the short vowel words. They will increase in complexity as the year progresses. My goal is to solidify the medial and ending sounds in simple words. Please do not feel as if you need to return the paper the very next day. This should be a "make a word" game that you play repeatedly. The recording sheet is there to give your child practice connecting handwriting with phonics. 

Red sight word folders are to be returned weekly, Thursdays work best to keep a routine. We will ask your child to read and/spell the sight words. Please leave the envelope in your child's folder so that we can include new words. We will record your child's score on the envelope so that you are aware of how they are doing. If your child does not have at least 4 out of 5 we will not send new words. Most kids are on week three words. 

Guiding Questions:

Tell me about Sea Turtles.

Why do Sea Turtles lay their eggs at night? 

What does it mean to have an endoskeleton? 

What was your favorite exhibit at the aquarium? Why? 

What did you learn from Superfish? 

Who was your aquarium writing partner? 

How did you decide what to draw?

Tell me about subtraction? 

Tell me a subtraction story.