January Happenings

: This month in reading we will focus on retelling non-fiction

texts with key details. We will use our knowledge of characters, setting and major
events in fictional stories to help us compare and contrast. We will also
concentrate on learning the differences between a story and a poem.

: We will continue working on identifying letter

sounds in words, producing rhyming words, and reading common sight words.

We are continuing to use bright beginning and working on

stretching our stories to include more details. Students will be writing stories that
will include detailed pictures with labels that match the written words, capital
letters, spaces and punctuation.

We will begin to discover measurement attributes and practice

describing, comparing, and classifying objects and numbers. Students will learn
how to determine which object is smaller/larger.

Students will explore Earth, space and time through the solar

system. They will exam concepts such as near and far or big and small.

We have a field trip coming up in February. We are going to the Museum of Science and History,
MOSH. If you would like your student to attend return their signed form
and $12 to your teacher before Wednesday, January 28thth.
We also wanted to say thanks for all your help during the holidays! Your
help made it a fun learning time for our students! THANKS!

Upcoming
Dates:

Skills to Focus on at
home:

Jan 5 - Welcome Back

Identify upper and lowercase

letters
Identifying letter sounds
Producing rhyming words
Asking and answering
questions about a non-fiction
book
Identifying the sounds of a
word
(ie: was, /w/ /a/ /s/)
Writing using space between
words
Counting and writing
numbers to 50
Counting by 10s
Adding/Subtracting using
word problems or equations

Jan 7 - Early Release

at 1:30
Jan 15 - Math Night
Jan 16 - No school
Teacher Planning
Jan 19 - No SchoolMartin Luther
King Jr. Day
Jan 28 - Early Release
at 1:30

High Frequency Words:

Please help your child recognize and write the following words and word families.
a

have

was
as

we

the

am

see
he

you
be

his they are

but

yes

is

to

for

from

said
no

it

out

play
saw

like
of

and
in

my

at

on
go

went

Word Families: -ot, og

that

this
me

here

with

all
who

girl