This week will be a patriotic one for sure! New Directions students will be participating in a school-wide presidential election on Tuesday. We will be reading books some age appropriate books about the important job of the president and will also be learning some fun facts a about the current candidates. Please see this link to view the info we will be sharing.
http://election.scholastic.com/
We will also be discussing the importance of Veterans and the celebration of Veteran's Day.
We will have a special veteran (my husband, Vern) join us on Friday!
Important Dates and Reminders:
November 10: Conferences 4-7:30pm
November 11: Red, White and Blue Day
November 15: Conferences 4-7:30pm
November 17: 1/2 day- 11:30 dismissal
November 18: Wisconsin Badger Day
November 22: Twin Day
November 23-25: NO SCHOOL
Reading: This week in reading we will be shopping for books at our "just right" reading level. I will be able to explain to you exactly what reading skills your child can be working on when we meet at conferences. Your child will also bring home a book or two nightly. Please enjoy reading each night with your child and praise the hard work s/he is doing as a reader. This week we will continue to learn about and practice our reading powers.
Writing: We are coming to the end of our information writing unit. This week we will make our writing easier to read by including correctly spelled sight words, spaces between words and writing more and more sounds in the words we stretch out on our own. We will use both revising and editing checklists to make sure our writing is the best it can be!
Math: We are continuing to focus on the equal and not equal signs and how to use them appropriately. We will also working with a counting mat to notice that as numbers grow sequentially what we are doing is adding 1. We will explore and discuss number order and even try to write some +1 equations (5=4+1). Additionally we will be looking at the attributes of a triangle and learning some position words: above, below, beside, behind and in front of.
Our math centers this week will be:
- Reviewing addition and subtraction by telling stories about pictures
- Creating a book using position words
- Playing a card game to practice recognizing numerals and quantities as equal or not equal
- Making our own 1-10 counting mat
Social Studies: We are wrapping up our school study this week by creating a map of our school. We will do a walk-through and take pictures of the spaces in our school that we will create for our map, students will choose which area they want to work on, and finally we will put all of our pieces together into a GIANT map.
Word Work: Our new sight words for the next two weeks are: see, in, you, big little. It is important that students learn to easily read AND write these words. Please continue to look for sight words in books you read at home and to find fun ways to practice writing them.
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