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Week of Nov.30-Dec.4, 2015

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  The next three weeks will go quickly, as we have a lot to cover.  We will be packing, as well as doing mid year reading assessments. 

For this week, please note:

THIS WEEK:  Early Release on THURSDAY at 1:30 p.m.

Theme: Holiday Time!

Reading:  This week we will continue to enjoy the many versions of a favorite tale, The Gingerbread Man, focusing on retelling using story arcs!  Creating story arcs will aide us as we write our own narratives. 

Writing:  The children are doing a wonderful job making their own books. We continue to focus on use of capitals, periods, and spacing!  We will continue to add details to make our writing more interesting. As we enjoy read alouds, we notice things we can add to our own stories such as, illustrations that show movement, sound words, speech bubbles, and pictures that spread across two pages- to name a just a few!

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, like, see, in, and, can, I, the, you, for, it, go, to, was, on, if, that, into

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK: SAID, ME.

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the words J

Word Study: The week before Thanksgiving, we explored the word family AT.  With those two little letters, we read and wrote so many words (cat, fat, bat, attack, etc.).  This week, we will work with the word family AN (can, man, fan, than, chant, etc).  Look out…we are readers/writers!

Math: During math workshop, we will reinforce the skill of more and less.  Specifically, we will use this concept to help us solve story problems.  We will also create numeral sets to 20, count aloud to 75, and back/forth to 30.  We will tally and graph! Our main focus continues to be a strong numeracy to 20.

Science: Weather!

Social Studies:  Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

• Monday: Make a list of AN words. 
• Tuesday: Visit www.raz-kids.com 

• Wednesday: Write 3 simple sentence using any of our sight words.    Do you have a capital and a period? 
• Thursday:  Using a deck of cards, play War with a parent.  While playing, say, “I have more” or “I have less”

This is easier if you don’t play with the face cards (Jack, Queen, etc.)

• Friday:   practice your home reader!  Send your bag on Monday.