Looking Ahead- January 14

This week we will finish up PALS testing.  They have been working hard in completing that.  We will learn a few more sight words and learn the letter F.  We will begin to shift our focus in word study from beginning/ending sounds to word families.  We will start with at and an word families this week.  We will also begin to learn about telling sentences, asking sentences and excited sentences.  We will resume literacy stations and hopefully begin reading groups again next week.  We will work on writing sentences that describe winter.

We will focus on ordinal numbers in math.  We will read Eric Carle's "10 Little Rubber Ducks".  We will then use rubber ducks to help identify oridnal places.  We will also play some games using ordinal numbers. 

We will learn about the words sink and float in Science/Theme this week.  We will do some water exploration and find out what objects sink and which float.  We might even discover the reason why some objects sink and some float.

Please remember that we have a half day on Thursday.  The children will get out at 12:25.  No school on Friday as it is a teacher workday and No school on Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.  Report cards will also be coming out soon.  

Have a great weekend and check out our most recent posting with lots of pictures from this week!

Mrs. Beltz