Here is what we are working on in each subject this month....
Literacy- Daily 5 (Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work, Work on Writing), Guided Reading, Prereading Activities (predictions, picture walks, looking for sight words we know), Retelling the story, Asking and answering questions about a story, Identifying characters, setting, major events (beginning, middle, ending), Naming the author and illustrator of a story and what their role is, Visualization, Antonyms, Understanding how illustrations support the story being told, Asking and answering questions about new vocabulary words that we hear in a story and what they mean, Comparing adventures and experiences of characters in stories
Phonemic Awareness- Knowledge of letters and sounds (We should be fluent with these skills), Rhyming, Beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words, Sight words, Clapping syllables in words, Blending words sounds together, Sorting objects into categories, CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant), Short and long vowels sounds
Writing- Ideas (Writing about one main idea), Organization (Does our story make sense?), Conventions (Do we have capital letters at the beginning of our sentence, spaces between our words, and punctuation at the end?), Using Kid Writing and our knowledge of letters, sounds, and sight words to write about a topic, Opinion writing (Telling whether we like a topic and why), Writing about key details in informational text and providing evidence from the story to support the key details, Exploring a number of books by an author and expressing our opinions about them
Math- Number recognition 0-20, Counting to 100, Naming and Composing 2D and 3D shapes, Measurement, Writing numbers 0-20, Understanding that the last number said when counting is how many there is in the set (As long as you have stayed organized), Identifying if a group is greater than, less than, or the same, Decomposing Numbers 0-20, Sorting objects, Fluently adding and subtracting to 5
Science- Weather and Seasons, Balls and Ramps
Social Studies- Responsive Classroom (working appropriately in a group), Richmond C.A.R.E.S., Holidays
Handwriting: Here are the letters we have covered and how to write them (remind your child to start their letters at the top): L-pull down straight, slide right. l-pull down straight. I-pull down straight, slide right at the top and bottom. i-pull down straight, dot at top. T-pull down straight, slide right at the top. t-pull down straight, slide right in the middle. O-circle back all the way around. o-circle back all the way around (start at the middle line). A-slant left, slant right, slide right in the middle. a-circle back all the way around, push up straight, pull down straight. D-pull down straight, jump up, big curve. d-circle back all the way around, push up straight, pull down straight. C-circle back. c-circle back (start at the middle line). E-pull down straight, slide right at the top, middle, and bottom. e-slide right, circle back. F-pull down straight, slide right at the top and the middle. f-curve back, pull down straight, slide right in the middle. G-circle back, slide left. g-circle back all the way around, push up straight, pull down straight, curve back. J-pull down straight, curve, slide right at the top. j-pull down straight, curve back, dot. Q-circle back all the way around, slant right at the bottom. q-circle back all the way around, push up straight, pull down straight, curve. U-pull down straight, curve forward, push up. u-pull down straight, curve forward, push up, pull down straight. S-curve back, curve forward. s-curve back, curve forward (start at the middle line). B-pull down straight, jump up, little curve, little curve. b-pull down straight, push up, circle forward. P-pull down straight, jump up, little curve. p-pull down straight, push up, circle forward. R-Pull down straight, jump up, little curve, little line diagonal. r-pull down straight, push up, curve forward. N-pull down straight, lift, slant right, pull up straight. n-pull down straight, push up, curve forward, pull down straight. M-pull down straight, lift, slant right, slant up, pull down straight. m-pull down straight, push up, curve forward, pull down straight, push up, curve forward, pull down straight. H-pull down straight, lift, pull down straight, lift, slide right. h-pull down straight, push up, curve forward, pull down straight. V-slant right, slant up. v-slant right, slant up (start at the middle line). Y-slant right, lift, slant left, pull down straight. y-slant right, lift, slant left. W-slant right, slant up, slant right, slant up. w-slant right, slant up, slant right, slant up (start at the middle line). X-slant right, lift, slant left. x-slant right, lift, slant left (start at the middle line).
Social Skills- Respect, Getting Along With Others, Good Manners, Working in Cooperative Groups, Self Control, Making decisions that will have positive outcomes
