Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The week of Jan. 5-8

 We had a great day back together!  Everyone had plenty to share about their vacation!  After the kids wrote about 4 fun things about their break, we wadded up our paper and had a good ole snowball fight!  It was so fun!!

Your kids are becoming great writers!  Check out their fun details on their wrinkled paper!

There is no spelling the next two weeks.  We will start spelling lists again on Jan. 20.  So, it's a great time to work on reviewing the first 50 sight words!  I attached the lists to this email for your reference!  Maybe you still have the checksheet I sent home that lets you know which words your child needs to work on.  If you haven't received 2nd quarter checksheet, your child needs to learn a few words on the 1st quarter list yet.  Please keep these lists handy and visible so they are not forgotten about.  Thank you for all of you do at home to help your child!  We are only a few weeks from 3rd quarter words 51-75!  I appreciate your help working on these at home too!  

Reading skills this week--We are reviewing the consonant digraphs this week--th (voiced-this, unvoiced-thin), sh, ch, wh.

No reading groups--I am back at Fastbridge testing for math now, so I will not be able to fit in our small reading groups and no books will be coming home.  However, if your child hasn't read the 5-6 books in the baggie I sent home before Christmas, please have them read those 2-3 times each until they are fluent reading them and can read them without help.  This is great practice on their level!  Those that sent back their bag, I will try to refill it this week with more books.  Please let me know if the books your child receives are too easy or too hard and I will make sure to give books that work better for them.

Math facts--Continue working on the doubles addition facts to 20 for the answer. (10 + 10).  I will work in testing the kids.  If your child knows all of the doubles, practice the rest of the facts up to 20, such as all of the 5 plus', 6 plus', etc.  When he/she knows them well, move on to learning subtraction facts to 20.  

Along with working more on subtraction in our math book, we have been focusing on place value with tens and one.  I feel like the class has a much better concept of place value now!

This week we are writing our New Year's Resolution for school or home.  Also, snow came at a great time for reading "The Mitten" and  "The Hat" books written and illustrated by Jan Brett.  We will learn about story elements such as the characters, setting, problem, solution and sequencing the stories.  Then, we will compare the two.

Tip of the week!

Please keep reading every evening with your child, even if it's only 10 min.  The hardest part about beginning readers is to be patient when they are sounding out words.  Always let them sound them out on their own using the body walk or arm walk if needed especially cvc words like "cat".  Making sure to let your child sound out the decodable words (not sight words that are hard to sound out), helps them know that you know that they can do it! The student will tend to give up on themselves if not given the opportunity to sound out words on their own. 

Coming up!

Jan. 15--1/2 day school--Dismiss at 12:10

Jan. 18--No School-MLK Holiday

Jan. 19--No School--Professional Development for teachers, grade cards in Skyward

Jan. 20--3rd quarter begins



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