Weekly Update - 3/11-3/14

Language Arts

Our new sight word for the week is "be." There was a bit of trouble with the computer and printer Friday morning, so please look for the sight word in your student's folder on Tuesday afternoon.

In Fundations, students have begun to use their knowledge of letter sounds to continue to develop their reading skills. We have been tapping out trickier words this week like yes, wet, quiz and wig. We've also been listening to beginning, middle and ending sounds and spelling the words together as a class. We continue to work on our lowercase letter formations. When working with your student at home, it's helpful to remind them to use their best Fundations handwriting and to focus on using lowercase letters when writing words, unless it's the word I, the first word in a sentence or their name.

In writing, we'll begin to turn our focus to opinion writing. We have completed a pre-assessment and will begin building on what we already know of giving our opinion in writing.

Math

We continue to work on understanding groups of 10 and ones left over. Our focus this week were on the numbers 70-100. We've made progress in understanding this very difficult concept and even if it's still feeling difficult for your student, they're working really hard! Next week, we'll be finishing up chapter 8 and completing the chapter assessment!

Science

In science this week, we discussed our last type of matter - air or gasses. We observed how air moves water, how paper moves through air (balled up or flat), and how blowing through straws helps to move water around different types of materials.

Important Reminders

*Sight word books will be coming home this week. We have been keeping them in our reading bags to be sure we had enough to read during our read to someone activities. We have plenty to go around now, so many will be coming home for your student to keep and work on reading to family and friends!