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**IMPORTANT REMINDER ABOUT PICKING UP YOUR CHILD FROM SCHOOL: Please do not block the entrance to the parking lot when you pick up your child. You must either park on the street or pull ALL THE WAY UP to the end of the drop-off zone. You may not park by the trash cans. Thank you for helping keep our school and students safe!** Week 22: February 6th-10th Important Events
Theme: 6- Sunshine & Raindrops Week: 3 Alpha Friends (Letters of the Week): Ll -Larry Lion, Kk - Keely Kangaroo, Qq - Queenie Queen Brain Word(s):is, here Reading Strategies: Predict/Infer; Summarize; Evaluate; Phonics/Decoding Decoding: words with short i Comprehension Skills: Fantasy vs. Realism; Story Structure: Plot Concepts of Print: Capitalize first word in a sentence; End punctuation; Word spacing Vocabulary: Describing Words; Weather Action Words Phonemic Awareness: Blending/Segmenting Phonemes, Sounds for Letters Ll, Kk, Qq Writing/Language: Description, Sentences, Journals, Weather Observations, Weather Report, Story, Book Report Fluency: Pause for Punctuation, Expression
Unit 4: Partners, Problem Drawings, and Tens Unit 4 Reviews and builds on children's understanding of addition and subtraction story problems. Children deepen their knowledge of problem solving as they learn the reverse connection of creating story problems for addition and subtraction numeric equations they have solved. In other activities throughout the unit, children continue partner work for partners 2 through 6 and practice visualizing teen numbers as a ten and extra ones. Geometry concepts are extending as children make 2-dimensional patterns on triangular grids. Please remember to staple the appropriate pages from the Math Homework & Remembering book to the weekly homework. Math Homework Due Dates: Volume 2 Online Student Texts Homework and Remembering Activity Book: http://www.iusd.org/student_resources/Mathematics.html Houghton Mifflin Activity Link: http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/
In social studies this year we will cover 6 units about Our World, Now and Long Ago (Harcourt - Reflections): * Being a Good Citizen * My Country * Workers * Where We Live * Time Goes By * Stories of the Past Our next unit will be "Workers," in which we will discuss community helpers. Over the course of the year we will discuss various topics including safety, proper diet and exercise, good hygiene, going to the doctor, and generally keeping our bodies safe and healthy. We use The Great Body Shop to aide us in teaching these lessons. In our current unit we are discussing how to stay clean and healthy. We are reviewing the importance of good hygiene, and talking about how dentists and doctors help us to stay healthy.
Wood Our current unit is about Wood. Our previous Trees unit has given us a nice introduction to wood and it's uses. During this unit we will review the uses of wood, talk about it's production into household items, and do hands on experiments to help students understand the properties of wood. We will observe different types of wood from different trees, test the buoyancy of wood, and change the shape of wood with sandpaper. This it a fun unit for the students, so be sure to ask them all about it! Please see the web site below for more information on our current unit: http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/index.html We will have 3 science units this year: Trees, Wood, & Animals 2x2. During each unit we will use our senses and hands-on activities to help us observe and explore these topics.
Fun Educational Web sites: http://eduplace.com/kids/mthexp/
Renee Plate: rplate@iusd.org 936-6427 Ramona Furness: rfurness@iusd.org 936-6427 Julie James: jjames@iusd.org 936-6446 Emily Bucago: ebucago@iusd.org 936-6421 Laura Ixta: lixta@iusd.org 936-6424 Cheryl Spurlock: cspurloc@iusd.org 936-6440
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