November 16-20, 2009
This week we will:
•Reading Unit 6/ Week 3 Question: How do beavers build homes?
•Read Building Beavers, Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop and Robin’s Nest.
•Discuss how beavers and other animals use materials around them to build
their homes.
•Discuss how an animal’s home provides shelter and protection for them.
•Comprehension skill: main idea
•Identify beginning sounds of words
•Identify letter sounds
•Practice segmenting (breaking apart words) and blending sounds to form words.
•Reading group (Phonemic Awareness) letter focus for this week: Z, Y, Q, E, V
& X
•Focus letter: Dd
•Focus number: review number words 0-10
•Sight words: she
•Identify solid shapes: cylinder, sphere, cube & cone.
Notes from Mrs. Shelton:
•I still need a few more pillowcases. If you’ve not sent yours in PLEASE do
so by Tuesday.
•We will have a Native American Fashion Show on Nov. 24 at 12:00. If you can
come in to help paint this week, come on in! I need volunteers from 1:30-
2:50. So far, no one has offered to come in and help.
•PLEASE send in your e-mail address. It is so much faster and easier to get
information out to you. Plus, I don’t have to worry about notes getting lost
on the way home. THANKS!
Thought for the week:
When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.
Homework:
Look around your house for items that are a sphere (like a ball), cube (like
a rubix cube), cylinder (like a paper towel roll) or cone (like an ice cream
cone). Draw a picture of the items you find on the homework paper.
