Families,

First quarter has come to an end. The children worked very hard. They have learned a lot of routines and procedures, worked on fine motor skills, and practiced being active participants in literacy and math. We began our Letterland focus lessons during the first quarter as well.

Second Quarter will be very busy, filled with learning and fun. Read all about it below.

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 learn the difference between opinion and fact and write our opinion, providing one reason for our opinion.

Math

• We will complete our unit on Understanding Numbers and Quantities, including identifying numerals 0-10, counting and creating sets, and writing numerals to tell how many. - Counting and Cardinality is more complex than you may think. Please visit this link to learn all about it.
• We will continue to work on subitizing, identifying how many instantly.
• Students will be introduced to a number path, a tool to help them identify larger and smaller numbers and be able to tell how much larger/smaller one number is than another.
• They will begin to use the math language greater than, more than, less than, fewer than, and equal to.

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 (to include falling to the ground when dropped): straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow.

Social Studies

• We will begin our unit on Understanding Culture. We will learn about different food, clothing, music, traditions, and holidays from around the world. We will also look at the similarities and differences among cultures.

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