School to Home Folder
This folder will go home on Friday and should come back to school on Monday. The folder will contain any notes or school forms from our principal, school nurse, or any other school personnel or organization.
Reading
Guided Reading lessons will include
- Tracking print left to right and word by word /Questions
- One to one matching
- Using picture cues
- Applying letter and sound knowledge in context
- Recognizing and reading sight words
- Making Connections(text/self; text/text)
- Predicting/Anticipating
- Partner Reading/Shared Reading/ Independent Reading
- Small Group/Choral Reading
- Retelling/Sequencing (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
- Schema-Activating prior knowledge
- Using graphic Organizers
- Self Correcting
- Phonics/Decoding/Vocabulary
- Attending to concepts of print (spacing, capitalization, punctuation)
- Strategies for solving unknown words
Click here for Strategies for Solving an Unknown Word
Writing
Writing Workshop lessons will include
- Letter formation
- Left to write progression
- How print and pictures contain the message
- How to differentiate between letters and words
- Spacing between words
- The sounds and letters in words
- Punctuation
- Assisting children develop greater independence in writing
- Expressing ideas through pictures, oral language, and print
- Valuing ideas that are important to students
- Sharing orally
Click here for a copy of writing paper that you can print and practice on
Math
Areas of study in math this year include
- Who's in School Today? (Classroom Routines and Materials)
- Counting and Comparing (Measurement and the Number System 1)
- What Comes Next? (Patterns and Functions)
- Measuring and Counting (Measurement and the Number System 2)
- Make a Shape, Build a Block (2-D and 3-D Geometry)
- How Many Do You Have? (Addition, Subtraction, and the Number System)
- Sorting and Surveys (Data Analysis)
Science & Social Studies
Some topics to be covered this year include
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Trees/Leaves/Seasons
- Homes
- St. Nick Day
- Polar/Winter Animals
- Penguins-Making Penguins Project: white sock adult size, 20 oz. plastic bottle, liquid laundry soap cap
- Dental Health
- 5 Senses
- Nursery Rhymes
- Frogs
- Farms
- Maine Animals & Ocean
We hope to take at least one field trip this year as an extention to our science units. We start our studies in science with ladybugs and sunflowers.
