Wednesday, February 6

Wednesday, February 6

Popcorn Word: each
Color Word Focus: pink

Reading Strategy: Chunky Monkey...look for smaller chunks or words inside bigger words.

 Handwriting: lowercase u & words with u
 Word Family: -ad

 Writer's Workshop: We continue to work on How-To's

Math: Measurement

New Concept: Hold up two items (bag of cotton balls in a gallon size baggie and bag of coins in a sandwich size baggie) and ask students which item is bigger. Which item would you rather put in your backpack and hike up the mountain with? Why would you rather pack the cotton balls? Because they are lighter. Just because an item is bigger, it does not mean it is heavier. We have already studied about how tall and how short items are, over the next few days we are going to compare weights. Repeat this process by setting two objects in front of you. Have students estimate which items will be heavier than or lighter than the other. Then the students will pick up a variety of items to determine which is heavier or lighter.

 Time for Kids: Inside the White House

                                                  Music Today
                                         
       ~I want to thank those of you who were able to make it in to conferences so far. I enjoyed visiting with all of you to share the progress your child is making. 
      ~The book order is due Wednesday, February 13. The sponsored book is: 
                                                       
                   ~We enjoyed the story our storybook reader read to us yesterday.

                                                ~Happy 1/2 birthday, Asher!