Week 21 January 13- January 17

Happy Friday KB families! It has been a busy and fun first week of 2020! If you would like to order from Scholastic this month please submit your order by Tuesday, January 21. Order at https://clubs.scholastic.com/  and use our class code QDR6N. 

Happy 6th Birthday Vincent!

 

Happy Half Birthday Pierce!

Happy Half Birthday Maybelline

Spalding: This coming week we will learn three new phonograms: ed, or, wh. We will learn 4 new spelling words that are very similar to each other, they will share the same beginning and ending consonant they are: ten, tan, ton, tin. We will also learn the word bed for five spelling words total. There will be no new rules to learn. 

Sight Words: We will continue to review list 2. 

Literature: This week we will read the fun story of The Bremen Town Musicians. We will identify the problem/solution, setting, and characters of the story. Our poem will be Jack Be Nimble.  We will be working on phonemic awareness with the poem by identifying rhyming words and acting our the poem. 

Math: Students will be able to understand place value using tens and ones.  Students will group ten objects together to make one group of ten, and any left overs are ones.  For example, the number 15 consists of one group of ten and five ones.

History: This week we will be learning about Martin Luther King Junior. Students will discuss what it means to be kind and fair to all. We will learn about the life of MLK and the positive things he did. We will learn all about words and acts of kindness and why they matter. Later in the week we will learn about another kind person in history; Mother Teresa. We will talk about how MLK and Mother Teresa are similar and different.