Week 33- Spiders

This week, we not only take a closer look at spiders, but also one of our focus authors- Eric Carle. His book The Very Busy Spider and a great nonfiction text are in our reading line up. We will be continuing to strengthen our comprehension and discussion skills by sharing interesting facts, comparing and contrasting, discussing the author’s point, and retelling the story.
 

We could use some glitter glue for a raised texture activity- Eric Carle often includes engaging elements in his books that include cutouts, flaps, and raised texture. This is a great way for students to incorporate professional moves into their own work. We will also be doing some painting with different textures so if you have items that you think could lead to interesting textures (things we could use to paint with or drag through paint such as bubble wrap, q tips, toothpicks, cooking implements, pine cones, ribbon...) that you do NOT want returned, we would love to use them. This painting adventure will be taking place Wednesday afternoon and I would greatly appreciate additional helping hands.

Our class’s closer look into Eric Carle's books has laid the groundwork for them to start writing their own Eric Carle Inspired books this week. I can’t wait to see what they come up with!

In math, we continue our work with subtraction. We meet Linus the Minus this week!

HOMEWORK

Reading:

10 minutes each night. Reading can include reading stories, the poems in

the binder, and practicing sight words.

Your child should ideally be spending time with familiar texts (such as the

printed books they bring home), as they help reinforce sight words in context

and using word solving strategies. However, these books are not real meaty

when it comes to comprehension, so they should also be spending time with

trade books (high quality children’s literature- like from the local library or

bookstore). These books lend themselves better to conversations. When you

read to them, you are also providing important modeling of a fluent reader

and a pleasant reading experience.

Math:

Remember, math should be done for 10 minutes each night.

Monday: I.5 Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 5

Tuesday: K.1 Subtract with pictures - numbers up to 5

Wednesday: K.2 Subtraction sentences - numbers up to 5

Thursday:  K.3 Subtract - numbers up to 5

You are welcome, and in fact encouraged, to continue having your child 

practice their addition skills by using real world objects- especially if they 

complete the IXL tasks quickly. Yay for math fact fluency! They may also 

visit any of the I section addition skills.