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January 24th, 2021

This week in literacy, we will…

  • Learn the letter-sound correspondences for the long vowel teams ee and ea. where the two vowels make the long vowel sound. 

  • Learn that the two vowels e-e and e-a make a single vowel sound 

  • Learn that syllables that contain the ee and ea vowel team are called vowel combinations

  • Read Lots of Snow, by Joan Silver. While reading, we will read repeating phrases with intonation and adjust our voices while reading dialogue to reflect the characters' emotions. We will make predictions, infer characters' feelings and discuss the problem and solution in the story. We will also recognize contractions in the text and take apart compound words to read two smaller words

  • Read books by Jory John, including The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, The Cool Bean, and The Couch Potato

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons

In Writing this week, we will…

  • Celebrate reaching our all school pride ticket goal with a snowman olympics! Each day we will do a different activity/celebration at this time! 


In math this week, we will… 

  •  Represent addition and subtraction on a number line

  •  Mentally find the number that is 10 more or 10 less than a given 2-digit number, without counting

  •  Recognize and extend number patterns

  •  Read numerals to 120

  •  Count by 10s to 100

  •  Order numerals to 120

  •  Demonstrate an understanding that multiples of 10 from 10 to 90 refer to some number of tens and 0 ones

  • Take the Unit 4 Test



In Science this week, we will…

  • Begin an engineering Rokenbok unit 

  • Learn about the “Rok Blocks” we will use to build structures

  • Explore the relationship between weight, strength, load and reinforcement

  • Learn how to make our structures strong. We will discuss how to make work easier by planning, building, testing, and improving on a flatbed truck we make out of Rok Blocks

  • Build a castle wall and design a way to make it stronger


Important Dates to Remember!

Jan. 26th Dress like a snowman

Jan. 24th-28th MAP Makeups

Feb. 9th - 100 Day of School - Dress like you are 100!

Feb. 14th Valentines Day


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