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Weekly Story Information for Jan. 30th-Feb.3rd

This week our Focus Story will be Seeds, written and illustrated by Ken Robbins. This book explores a variety of different seeds, and how they grow in their environments. The author/illustrator shows real life photos of various seeds and how they mature into variying plants, trees, and flowers.
Our Target Skill this week will be learning to draw conclusions. We will also continue to practice making predictions, recalling information, and comparing and contrasting this week. We will work on identifying, forming, and matching the letter Oo to its phoneme--/o/.

Amazing Words: seeds, pod, roots, stem, pit, sprouts

High-Frequency Words: they, you, of (Please continue to practice ALL of our previously covered sight words at home!)

Letter: Oo

Weekly Story Information for Jan. 23rd-27th

This week our Focus Story will be "Farfallina and Marcel" by Holly Keller. This is the tale of the unlikely friendship between a caterpillar (Farfallina) and a goose (Marcel). Suddenly, Farfallina disappears for a long time and returns as a butterfly. Marcel has also over time grown from a young gosling into a beautiful mature goose himself. Will the two friends be able to find and recognize each other again?
Our Target Skill this week will be learning to identify the plot of a story. We will also continue to practice character identification, making predictions and retelling a story. We will work on identifying, forming, and matching the letter Ff to its phoneme--/f/.


Amazing Words: goose, gosling, caterpillar, butterfly, reflection, cocoon

High-Frequency Words: see, look (Please continue to practice all of our previously covered sight words at home!)

Letter: Ff

Weekly Story Information for Jan.16th-20th

This week our Focus Story will be "See How We Grow", by Katacha Diaz. We will follow a set of twin girls throughout this story as we discuss how children grow and change from the newborn stage to around age five.
Our Target Skill this week will be determining the cause and effect of certain events. We will also continue to practice making predictions and retelling a story, as well as comparing and contrasting. We will work on identifying, forming, and matching the letters Dd and Kk to their phonemes--/d/ and /k/--respectively.



Amazing Words: twins, newborn, crawl, walk, children, babies

High-Frequency Words: see, look (Please continue to practice all of our previously studied sight words at home, as well!)

Letters: Dd and Kk