We know they are always excited to share their learning with you at home. Homework calendars went home last week!
Just in case you didn't see it in your child's folder, click here to access it!
Important Dates:
January 15: 1/2 11:30 Dismissal
January 18-20: Celebrate New Directions Week
- January 18- Pajama Day
- January 19- Crazy Hair/Hat Day
- Spaghetti and Art Family Night
- January 20- NO SCHOOL
- January 21- Sports Wear Day
- Family Gym Night
- January 22- Book Character Dress Up Day
January 29: NDLC/Quinney Dance (more info to come)
Reading: This week in reading we will spend multiple days focusing on using our letter-sound knowledge to read unknown words. We will use consonant clusters (chunks of consonants together) and practice reading through the whole word to the end to solve new tricky words. This will be the big work in the blue dot/yellow dot books that many students are moving into by the end of this week. Students have mastered checking the beginning sound and the picture to figure out words, but as we read more challenging texts we will need to use the whole word while also thinking about what makes sense in the story and sounds right in the sentence. Whew! That's a lot of work for new readers!
Writing: How-to writing is in full swing in our classroom! The boys and girls have been loving studying the work of other author's who have done this type of writing and are coming up with great ideas of what they can teach others. This week we will focus on adding more specific steps to our books and using a partner to make sure our procedural writing is able to follow. We will also be working to make sure the illustrations in our books are using to understand and will use labels to show additional information.
Math: This week in math we will continue to solidify our understanding of teen numbers. We will be making teen number arrangements and working to write equations that show the number of 10's and ones in each teen number. We will also be revisiting 2D shapes and will work to show how shapes can work together to make new shapes. Our math centers this week will be:
- Listening to and solving recorded story problems on the iPad.
- Following the directions of a partner to use position and shapes words to create new shapes
- Organizing math tools into groups of 10 and ones to show teen numbers and recording the equation to match
- Playing a dice game that will help us build teen numbers using ten frames
Social Studies: We will begin our family study in social studies this week. We will learn about many different types of families and the people that make them up. One of the books that we will be using through this study is Todd Parr's The Family Book. This book touches on lots of different types of families, different living situations, and different interests in a bright, colorful, and funny way.
Word Work: We will continue to work on the sight words: have, get, for, play, will.
Don't forget...January is a big month for our school! There are many informational events taking place to help others learn more about New Directions. Please share these dates with anyone you think may be interested in hearing more about what a great place New Directions is for students to learn and grow!
Thursday,
January 14th-6:00-7:30 PM District-Wide Info Session held at Tanner Early
Learning Center
Tuesday,
January 19th-5:30-7:00 PM-Spaghetti and Art Family Night
Wednesday,
January 20th-10:00 AM-noon-Open House at New Directions
Monday,
January 25th-6:00-7:00 PM-Info Session at New Directions
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