Tuesday, January 6

Tuesday, January 6

~ Be safe out there today!
~ This is NOT an e-learning day...no schoolwork will be due. 
~ If you haven't done so, please return your child's water bottle and their holiday homework.
~ We will have lunch in our classroom tomorrow.
~ Happy New Year!

Monday, January 5

Monday, January 5
WELCOME BACK!!
~ I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday break with your family!
Gold Day: (No library, technology, or character education.)

STEM class with Mr. Brown today.

Big Book: Stretch  By: Doreen Cronin

Genre: Fiction
Science Connection: Health In this fiction text, children build on their knowledge about being fit as animals stretch across the pages. The rhyming and unconventional

layout of the text help children feel like everything is in motion. Connect and Teach: Author and Illustrator

READING AND VOCABULARY

Read Aloud: Get Up and Go!  By: Nancy Carlson
GENRE: Informational Text

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Science Connection: Health

This informational text provides facts on how to take care of your body.

Children learn more about exercising and eating well. They also learn why it is important to practice healthy living.

Connect and Teach: Key Details

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Isolating Phonemes, Blending Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Consonant s /s/
Irregular Words: are, does

WRITING AND GRAMMAR
Conjunction or

Literacy Jobs

New jobs await the kiddos...
~Fishing for color words
~Write the Room: winter words
~Working with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
~Fine motor work using push pins
~Building sentences 

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution By: Pat Miller and illustrated by Kathi Ember. 

Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions. But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the forest she learns about New Year's resolutions and helps her friends get started on theirs. If only she can think of a resolution of her very own.

Music Today

Projects: New Year's Resolution Wand & New Year's Eve Kid

The Maple Lake Veterinary Clinic now has another location right in our classroom...lol!
I'm confident the animals will be in the best care!

~ Return your child's completed holiday homework to have lunch in our classroom tomorrow.

~ Please return your child's water bottle!
~ We enjoyed celebrating Dawson's birthday!


~Patiently waiting to open their gift from me...

~It looks like they liked their gifts!