Week of January 12-15, 2015

Week of January 12-15, 2014

Theme: My Detective's Tools

Focus Question: How can I use tools to investigate?

Letter of the Week: G

 Dear Families,

This week, as children continue to think and act like detectives, they will learn about tools that detectives use to gather information. Children will use a balance scale to compare the weights of objects, using the words lighter and heavier. they will use connecting cubes to compare the lengths of items, using the words shorter and longer. And using containers of various sizes will learn to use the words more, less, empty, and full. 

Learning Together:

• Together, explore the capacity of kitchen containers of various shapes and sizes. Fill two container with water or rice, and ask your child to guess which container holds more. Then measure the contents of each one.
• Read to your child "the Three Billy Goats Gruff," "the Gingerbread Man," or a similar story in which the characters solve a problem. Talk about the problem in each story and how it was solved. 
• Cook or bake a food item together, and invite your child to help you measure the ingredients.

Special Activities:

• Due to the snow day last Thursday if your child still has their Show and Share for letter Q in their backpack we will share them on Monday.
• We will read a story called "Making Tamales." Then we are going to plan a meal menu together choosing the foods making sure to make healthy choices and then we will make our meal the following day and eat it together.  We are going to weigh some of the foods and compare the weights of the different food items. 
• Each day we will compare a variety of objects using weight, volume and length.
• We will participate in some listen to reading activities using the classroom netbooks as well as our Tag readers.
• We will practice some of our letters by writing them in sand on trays. 
• We are also going to use our observation skills to write about an object of our choice. We will use a hand lens to look at it closely then we will draw the object. We will dictate or write the words that describe what our object looks like and feels like.

Upcoming dates:

• January 12-Ohio State spirit day, wear your scarlet and gray--O-H-I-O
• January 15-Show and Share letter G
• January 19-No School Martin Luther King Day