Dear Families,
     We thank you for your help at home as we continue to emphasize recall of Dolch sight words as well as phonetic blending of letter sounds which we call “sounding out” the word.  We are working hard to segment words, spell phonetically and write to solve math word problems.  We are adding details to our picture drawings and learning adjectives to describe the naming words we have learned so far. A good site on the Internet for these words is:  tampareads.com

Literacy

Concepts  & Skills

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Social Studies/Science
  Our Place in This World

•  Extending Vocabulary in the Content areas using Thinking Maps and Shared Writing.
• Building on What we already Know Collectively and asking questions about what we want to find out about our place in this world.
• Following Simple Maps & Directions to locate places.
• Understands we live in the state of Florida and that Florida is part of the United States of America.
• Compares and contrasts Florida’s climate, weather, physical traits, symbols and people
• Playing Store   Needs/Wants
• Goods and Services  Descriptions
• Investigates different kinds of media and how media affects the economy.
• Listens and views stories and various types of media about important, historical contributions of people who lived in the United States and the rest of the world.
• Unit D Space and Technology

1. Identify and produce rhyming words.
2. Read high frequency words.
3. Sorting naming words by category
4. Generate ideas and questions about “how” and “why” things are the way they are in our world.
5. Explore how and why mass media can influence people through varied mediums by utilizing powerful word choice, imagery, and incentives.

Vocabulary to Discuss

• Counts orally to 100 consistently and fluently without tools or prompts
  1. Counts back orally from 30 to 0 without tools or prompts
  2. Correctly participates in choral counts by 2s, 5s and 10s 
  3. Works independently during small group activities while using a variety of measuring tools
  4. Identifies coins by feeling/ & value
  5. Counts on from any number 0-100
  6. Counts tally marks independently.
  7. Creates and correctly solves change-to-less number stories
  8. Consistently is able to demonstrate a “teen” number as 10 + a digit.
  9. Uses the concepts of greater and less than to find a mystery number
  10. Recognizes, sorts and continues patterns
  11. Orders numbers from least to greatest

Think and Talk About Science

• The light reflected by the Moon looks a little different every day but looks the same again about every 28 days.

• The appearance of sunrise and sunset is due to the rotation of Earth every 24 hours.

• There are many objects in the sky that are only visible at night.

• There are continuous patterns that occur in nature (seasons, phases of the Moon, blooming flowers).