Families,

We are approaching the ½ mark for the second quarter. The students have been working hard to learn many new skills. Each day, ask your child to share one new thing they learned.

Curriculum Connections

Literacy Comprehension

• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text (fiction and non-fiction)
• Retelling familiar stories, including characters, setting, and major events
• Ask and answer questions about words in the texts that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. We will also explore vocabulary in our stories and text.
• Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or information in a text.
• Describe how the words and illustrations work together to tell the story or provide information.

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

• We will practice finding matching rhyming words, isolating and substituting beginning and ending sounds, blending onset and rime to say a word (Ex: c-at is cat).
• We have begun segmenting words into syllables or word parts. Ex: Excitement is ex/cit/ment.
• We will continue working on substituting beginning and ending word parts to create a new word (Ex: Word-Jumping, change jump to pick. The new word is picking)

Writing/Fine Motor

• We will work on stretching out words and writing letters for the sounds heard.
• We will work on the concept of a sentence and sentence structure.
• Capitalizing the word I, names, and the first word in a sentence.
• We will practice spacing between words.
• We will begin informational writing: choosing a topic, writing a topic sentence and writing facts about our topic.
• We will practice rereading our work to see if it sounds right or makes sense.

Math

• We will continue to work on identifying and creating sets of objects that are more than/greater than, less than, and equal to a given set through the use of counting stories and games.
• We will work on the concept of one more/one less when counting
• We will work on recognizing teen numbers and building sets to 20 using a group of 10 and some extra ones. Example: 13 is a group of 10 and 3 extra ones.

Science

• We have begun our unit on Motion and Stability. In this unit the students are exploring the position and motion of objects in the environment. They will identify, describe and model positional words: in front of, behind, between, on top of, under, above, below, and beside.
• They will explore/investigate different ways objects and organisms move (including falling to the ground when dropped): straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow.

Social Studies

• We will continue our unit on Understanding Culture by changing our focus from elements of culture to specific countries. We will be learning more about India, Mexico, Africa, and China. We will learn about the customs and traditions surrounding various winter holidays, including Diwali, Los Posadas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Christmas.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns.

Mrs. Carter-  ccarter2@wcpss.net

Ms. Ellis- mellis2@wcpss.net

Ms. Mills- lmills@wcpss.net