This Week's Happenings

9/16/13

Monday: Day 4 > Computer Class
Tuesday: Day 5 > Art Class
Wednesday: Day 1 > Music Class
Thursday: Day 2 > Phys. Ed. Wear Sneakers!
Friday: Day 3 > Library Book Exchange

This week we will be studying the sounds of d and f. Also some new concepts: blends, sight words-said and of, and our first Fluency Reader! Please review these when the pages come home in the Take-Home Folders. Lesson 15 in our Phonics series is an assessment. This will help me see what your children have retained up to this point. If there are deficits, we will work on these in small groups as needed. This will occur every five lessons. If you are reviewing these pages it will really help to keep your child on target.

Our first math assessment will be given this week. Review these: adding to 9, knowing that changing the order of the numbers does not change the answer, counting objects and putting them together. You will see pages in the take-home folder. Please look over them tonight.

We will begin our next Topic in math after our assessment, which is Understanding Subtraction. Review any pages in the take-home folder later this week.

Ask your child about the Reading Strategies that we have been studying.
Comprehension: Check for Understanding and Back up and Reread
Accuracy: Cross-Checking and Flip the Sound
Expand Vocabulary: Tune Into Interesting Words

*As always read any book/story that interests your child.*

I hope you have a wonderful week!

This Week's Happenings

9/2/13

Monday: No School
Tuesday: Day 5 > Art Class
Wednesday: Day 1 > Music Class
Thursday: Day 2 > Phys.Ed.
Friday: Day 3 > Library Book Exchange **PICTURES**
Remember to bring your envelope, payment and smile!

This week we will be studying the sounds of p,i,l and a. Please review these when the pages come home in the Take-Home Folders. In Math we will be studying addition. Please review the pages and practice adding numbers to 9. As always read any book/story that interests your child.
We have begun learning about reading strategies that will help your child with comprehension. Ask them about these… Check for Understanding, Back Up and Reread, also Cross-Checking(do the pictures and words look right, sound right and make sense?) this strategy will help with accuracy.
The year is off to a great start! The girls and boys took a baseline test in reading to see what they remember from kindergarten. Overall the results were not too bad. They also completed a readiness test in math. Again, these results were right on target.
I hope you have a great week!

This Week's Happenings

9/9/13


Monday: Day 4 > Computer Class
Tuesday: Day 5 > Art Class
Wednesday: Day 1 > Music Class
Thursday: Day 2 > Phys. Ed.
Friday: Day 3 > Library Class


This week we will be studying the sounds of a, z and s. Also some new concepts: suffix s, sight word-the, and our first Decodable Reader! Please review these when the pages come home in the Take-Home Folders. The Decodable Reader will stay in school for a few days but when it comes home please have your child read it to you. Lesson 10 in our Phonics series is an assessment. This will help me see what your children have retained up to this point. If there are deficits, we will work on these in small groups as needed. As always read any book/story that interests your child.


In Math we will be wrapping up our lessons on addition. Please review the pages and practice adding numbers to 9. On Friday we will have our first review of everything we have learned so far. This brings us to an assessment next week on addition, more information on next week’s This Week’s Happenings.


We are continuing to review the reading strategies that will help your child with comprehension. Please keep working on… Check for Understanding, Back Up and Reread, also Cross-Checking(do the pictures and words look right, sound right and make sense?) this strategy will help with accuracy and our newest-Tune Into Interesting Words.

I hope you have a super week!