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Remember to send all forms of communication to school in your child's homework folder. If you have any questions or concerns please write me a note, call me at 463-1900x 1115, or contact me through Remind and I will get back to you.
Snack: Please make sure you are checking the snack calendar or snack reminder for your child's day. I will send home a reminder every week for the next week. When bringing in a snack please drop it off at the office by 10 AM or have your child bring it in with them. Please remember all snacks must prepackaged. Thank you all for your help.
Quick Reminder, we go outside for recess. Please make sure your child has dressed appropriately for the weather.
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Updates:
17: No School
19-21: 1/2 days for Parent Teacher Conferences
4- Jade
21- Kedlee
Writer's Workshop- This week in writer's workshop students we continue writing true stories. We will discuss how to tell a story. We will use words such as, "one day, then , finally." We will also add feelings to our writing, so the reader understands how we are feeling about our story. Students will continue to learn how to write more than one sentence and emphasize spacing between words. At the end of writing they will share their work and use complete sentences to talk about their drawing and their writing. Students will continue to "bubble gum" or stretch out their words to hear all the sounds and write what they hear. Ex: cat we will stretch to hear each individual sound: /c/a/t/ and then write the letters to match their sounds: cat. Students will also use their alphabet chart to help them write the sounds of the letters in their words. We will learn that all words have a vowel in them. Students will also use their word wall words (sight words) to help them with their writing.
Fundations and Word Work: This week students will continue to blend CVC words. Students will be given a word such as: lap and sound each letter and then blend the sounds together to create the given word. Kiddos will continue to learn about vowels and how every word has a vowel. They will learn how vowels have two sounds: long and short. Our vowels are: a,e,i,o, and u. We will also continue sight words. This week students will learn: was,of, by. Students will review all words learned. We will practice these and use these in sentences. Sight words or snap words are words that your child will learn in a "snap." Please make sure you are practicing sight words at home. We will review: was, of, by, into, and, up, one, are, day, with, in, play, said, at, you,on, look,we, to, no, be, go, me, my, can, the, I, like, a, and see.
Reader's Workshop- This week we in reader's workshop we will continue to become Super Readers. Students will continue to learn about their slider power. They will point to the word while reading and slide through all the letters to read the word. We will also activate our snap word power. Students will look for sight words while reading and make sure they are reading the words smoothly. We will reread stories to make sure we are reading it smoothly and not choppy. We will use illustrations to make sure we're understanding the words we are reading.
Math- During calendar we will practice counting 1-100 and beyond. We will work on writing our numbers 1-100 daily. We will continue to learn how to identify teen numbers and how to identify one more and one less than a given number. We will also continue to learn about addition. We will use ten frames to complete addition problems within 10. We will begin to work on subtraction and understanding the difference between addition and subtraction.