The week of Sept. 6-9.

What a beautiful weekend!  I hope you all were able to get out and enjoy it!  The kids might say that I had a "raspy" voice today.  Unfortunately I ended up with  laryngitis over the weekend! It was so nice to be able to talk again yesterday!

Scholastic book order in Friday Folder last week
If you are interested in ordering books from Scholastic, please do so by Friday, Sept. 9.  It is real easy to order on-line if you go to scholastic.com/readingclub and put in our class code:  GZV77.  I will be able to see your order after you pay via credit card.  We get points for each book ordered that I will put toward more books for our class library.  You can also send in a check if you prefer and I will mail it on.  

Ff for Fish
Let me know if you have any questions on what to do with the fish pattern that was sent home on Friday also.  I love the creativity of the fish that have already been brought in!  Please use something you already have at home.  Let your child have fun searching out options!  

This week in reading!  
Theme 2:  Schools Have Rules
Comprehension skills:  Making Connections and determine what's important
Vocabulary:  rules, citizen, teach
Letter of the week:  Ff (we use the "fishing" action when saying the sound for Ff)
Phonemic Awareness:  Rhyming (We are reading nursery rhymes and poems and listening for rhyming words)  See if your child can go back and forth with you telling rhyming words.  They can be consonant-vowel-consonant words like:  cat, bat, sat, rat, or silly nonsense words that rhyme.  If they are struggling, make sure you point out that the ending sounds have to be the same, you just change the beginning sound.
sight words:  in, to (please keep reviewing: a, the, and, is)
color of the week:  Blue  (wear blue tomorrow, Wednesday)

Math this week!
We took our Topic One math test today over numbers 1-5.  The kids did well and will get it back tomorrow.  We will begin Topic Two tomorrow comparing and ordering numbers 0 to 5.  Please keep reviewing writing numbers 1-5, so your child doesn't forget how to write them correctly!  Using the direction sheet for writing numbers in the parent packet from Parent Info. Night will give your child a head start on the numbers 6-10.  They love practicing on dry erase boards if you have any at home!  It's more fun than paper and pencil.

Handwriting Without Tears
We have been using our foam lines and curves to learn how to make the uppercase letters.  Can your child tell you what lines and curves to use for these letters?  F, ,E, D, P, B, R, N, M, 
I just introduced more letters today that we will review tomorrow.  Next week we will begin writing the uppercase letters in our handwriting book.

Coming Up!
Sept. 7         Wear Blue today!
Sept. 14       Wear Green today!
Sept. 16        Lap-a-thon today! (A lapathon note came home today!)
Sept. 21        Wear Purple today!
Sept. 21         All Pro Dad's Breakfast 8:00 in cafeteria.  This is for Dad and children.
Sept. 28         Parent/Teacher Confereneces, No School KDG only
Sept. 29-30    No School KDG-5th

Yellow Day!