May 14, 2012
Dear parents,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend. During this week, we will continue working with the theme: “Amazing Creatures”. The children will be talking and reading about the ocean, and the many wonderful sea creatures that live in it. As part of the many activities, they will be writing, creating, and describing many sea animals.
To further our theme discussions, the children will be discussing the following questions:What kinds of animals live in the ocean? What do you think is the most wonderful or amazing ocean animal? Why?What ocean animal has fins? What animal has claws? Where can you look to find animals with fins? What would a magic fish look like? Which story or poem about ocean creatures would you like to look at and read again?
Also this week, the children will begin working in their fairytale stories. As you might know by now, they chose their story today. Every day, they will be writing their version of the story in their own words. They will be retelling this story, as seen by the character that they want to be.
These are the language arts skills for this week:
- Ask questions/compare and contrast.
- Understand and use oral vocabulary words: amazing, ocean, glide, periscope, invite, deep, and reason.
- Identify final x/ks/ and initial /v/ in words.
- Recognize and use pronouns.
- Write a list of descriptive words.
- Complete a word web.
- Use opposites.
- Read and identify the high-frequency words:has, look, in speech and text.
- Write descriptive sentences.
- Use letter knowledge to write letters in a word.
- Use writing traits: word choice.
- Complete a Venn diagram.
- Add phonemes to words to form new words.
- Match letter sounds and read words.
- Revise and edit sentences.
- Compare and contrast genres.
- Publish and present a piece of writing.
In math, the children will continue working with addition and subtraction problems. They will be developing addition and subtraction situations, and family facts based on the same original situations.
In science, the children will beinvestigating, discussing, and recognizing common features of a fish. They will also be comparing a real fish with a make-believe fish. They will be watching a few videos about the deep ocean. In social studies,they will be recognizing the American flag and the bald eagle as symbols for American values.
We have news about the mealworms! This morning, we discovered that the mealworms started shedding their old skin. This is part of the process that the children got to observed. Now, they are documenting this information.
Have a wonderful week!
Thank you,
Mrs. Aponte
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