New week, new opportunities to learn and grow!

What's up this week in room 3143?

Literacy- We will be meeting new letterland friends this week. We will also begin to talk about syllables. We will be learning to count, produce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.

We will also continue to work on asking and answering questions about text that we read in class and of course we are ALWAYS practicing our sight words. I hope the boys and girls are practicing them at home as well! In order to be the best readers possible, we need to know our sight words!

Writing- We will be working more on making sure our sight words are spelled correctly and phonetically spelling our other words. We will be talking about capitalization and punctuation in our stories.

Math- This week we will be working on the -1 pattern. For example, you have 3 dogs, one dog ran away. How many dogs do you have now? We will also be digging in to our teen numbers. We are working on multiple strategies to solve our problems and continuing to work on our math talk to make sure we truly understand why and how we get our answers. 

Science- We are wrapping up our unit on 5 senses. Our next unit will be all about weather!

Social Studies- We are talking about wants and needs. We will be talking more this week about what it means to "need" something and what it means to "want" something.

Things we need in our classroom:

• old magazines that we can use to cut out pictures of wants and needs 
• treasure box items (stickers, fast food happy meal toys, erasers, dollar store items

Don't forget, NO SCHOOL on Tuesday. We will be observing Veteran's day.

Some Healthy Tips for this week:

• Make sure your child is going to bed early and getting plenty of sleep
• Make sure your child gets a nutritious breakfast that will hold them over until lunch. 
• I hope the boys and girls are getting at least 30 minutes of play when they get home. Burning off energy is good for our brains :)