Week 20

Greetings 1B Families,

Happy new year and welcome back! I hope that you and your family had a wonderful holiday and are ready for a wonderful 3^rd quarter. I enjoyed the break by spending time with family and friends in Chicago land but am ready to be back with your sweet kiddos!

Second quarter evaluations and checklists were emailed out on January 3^rd. Please review and feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns. 

You will notice that your child will have a new math workbook.  Old workbooks will be sent home this week and can stay at home.  We will also be learning 20 phonograms each week for the third and fourth quarter. Students also have new levelled readers beginning this week.  Please keep food and liquids away from the books as they are paper copies.  We want them to last awhile! Thank you!

Today we will discuss what this new year will hold for us and each child will come up with one resolution.  We are looking forward to a great third quarter!

In pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness,

Shannon Dawson

Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 min. using the book bags and bubblegum math practice for 2 minutes, practice poem ( I Know all the Sounds that the Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky)
Phonograms to practice nightly: ck, ay, er, ea, ch, oo, ay, ow, ou, k 

Monday: fall, went, back, away, paper, put, each and math workbook pg. 7-9

Tuesday: soon, came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet and math workbook pg. 10-12

Wednesday: find, give, new, letter, take, after  and math workbook pg. 13-14

Thursday: Review all 20 words and math workbook page 15-17

Friday: read for 15 minutes

Calendar

Monday, January 20^th: No school; Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance

Academics 

Idiom: Fish Out of Water

Poetry: I Know All The Sounds That The Animals Make by Jack Prelutsky 

Spalding: We will learn 20 new words this week. On Thursday, we will review all 20 words. On Friday, we will have a test on all 20 words and 10 phonograms.

Phonograms to practice nightly: ck, ay, er, ea, ch, oo, ay, ow, ou, k 

Monday: fall, went, back, away, paper, put, each

Tuesday: soon, came, Sunday, show, Monday, moon, yet

Wednesday: find, give, new, letter, take, after 

Grammar/Writing: This week we will read and write about passages from Aesop. We will observe a painting named La Piñata by Diego Rivera. We will use the details of this painting to practice identifying parts of speech and writing complete sentences. 

Literature: We will start the new year with a Brother’s Grimm Fairy Tales unit. Students will enjoy Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel and Gretel as they explore the elements of a fairy tale. 

Math: Students will compare numbers by using the phrases “more than” and “less than”. Students will also compare numbers using subtraction to describe how many more or how many less than a given set of objects. 

Science: Students will continue to learn about electricity. We will discuss electric circuits, conductors, and insulators. 

History: We will begin a new unit on the Maya, Aztec, and Incas. This week we will focus on the Maya identifying the area they lived, the importance of family, and their leaders.