Week 22- January 21-24 ( No School Monday)

Happy Friday! If you would like to order from Scholastic this month please do so by Tuesday, January 21st at 8am. Use our class code: QDR6N

Our kiddos are growing!! If I had a nickel for every time I heard one of them say “I’m hungryyyyyy” (It’s always very dramatic) I’d be rich! Ha! That being said, please be sure to pack your little one a few extra snacks. Especially the full day and Athenaeum kiddos; many have been without a snack for our final snack time this week.

Our Penguin Projects!

Happy 6th Birthday Annmarie!

Happy Half Birthday Sabrina!

Spalding:  This week we will learn three new phonograms ough, igh (cue: three letter), ey. Students will have five spelling words: top, 

he r. 4 (e may say e at the end of a syllable) 

you

will r. 17 (we can double the l following a single vowel at the end of a one syllable word.) 

we  r. 4 (e may say e at the end of a syllable) 

Friday is our 100th day of school so we are challenging our students to write 100 phonograms and spelling words, wish us luck! 

Sight Words: This week we will review list 3.

Literature: We are so excited to begin reading our second Classic to Keep, “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.” We will be reading this story for the next three weeks. We will be reading the story to the class, so no books are needed. We ask that you please hold off on reading the book with your child at home until we are finished with the entire story so we can enjoy it as a class family. We will have Mary Had a Little Lamb for our weekly poem.

Math:  This week we will continue to work on numbers 10-20 focusing on number order. Students will practice counting and writing in ascending order. We will work on finding the missing number in a sequence and identifying numbers that are more than others. For example, students will say “17 is one more than 16; 12 is two more than 10.” On Friday, we will be taking an assessment on place value (tens and ones) and numbers to 20.

History and Geography: We will review the names of the seven continents and spend this week learning all about the continent of Australia! We will learn about Australian words and animals, especially the kangaroo. Students will also learn about aboriginal art in Australia and they will create their own dot paintings.