Tuesday, February 3

 Tuesday, February 3 

Popcorn Word: each
Color Word Focus: brown
Phonics: -am Word Family

 Language Arts: Using the story Animals in Their Habitats, the students will:

~ Build academic vocabulary and concepts related to animals in their habitats.  

~Summarize information from the text.
 ~Identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents).

~Build oral language and vocabulary through whole-group and partner discussion.

 Writer's Workshop: The kids continue to learn about book reviews through Where's Molly? a story about a boy who is looking for his cat. The last time we talked about the story events in the review and now we will focus on the illustrations. They are writing in their journal on a topic of their choice until we learn how to write a book review.

 Handwriting: lowercase u

SMART Room: Tonight the Smart Room will be transformed into a heart/Valentine theme.

DAILY 5
Math: Working with Subtraction

The kids build a row of cubes. A dot cube is rolled to determine how many to take away from that set. How many are left?
The last step is to write it: ___ - ___ = ___.

 Music Today

~We received the 'Golden Dustpan' from the custodial staff for keeping our classroom so clean last week!

~As I reflect on conferences, I just want to say that I appreciate all the conversations I had with you! Together, we do GREAT things for your child!
~Tomorrow is our Trash to Cash collection.