week 5

Last week, we observed ants in our ant farm and labeled an ant.  We also investigated what ants like better, jelly or cream cheese.  Of course, ants love sugar!!  The ants chose jelly.  We also began our Nutrition program and discussed what we did daily that were healthy choices.  

In Language Arts, we read many stories and looked at cause and effect, retelling the beginning, middle, and end of a story, and predicting what will happen next in a story.  Try to use some of these strategies when you are reading nightly.  We started 4 minute timed number writing to 100 test in math which went well.  Continue practicing writing numbers in order at home.

This week, we will focus on noting details with each story we will read.  We will finish learning how to write lower case letters the "first grade way" and concentrate on vowels and the sounds they make.  We will learn the "Vowel Song" to help us remember the 12 vowel sounds.  We will count and group objects in ones and tens.  This is a hard concept for most of the students, please reinforce identifying ones and tens place value.