Welcome back from the long weekend! I hope you were able to spend some time relaxing with your family. Most of our time was spent inside, out of the RAIN! If you were not able to attend the small group meetings last week, I will be sending home a math workbook with a letter attached briefly explaining it's purpose. Here is a quick look at our short week!
READING
We will focus on the letter "e" as in "emu" and "ee" as in "bee." We will learn different facts about emus and bees. Our fun words for this week are "emu" and "enormous." Be sure to ask your children what they know about our fun words. Our word wall words for this week are see, down, find, good and please. We are still learning routines and procedures for our Reading block so we are not quite ready to begin our groups. However, I will be sending home a letter explaining your child's reading group placement.
LANGUAGE
The children have begun correcting sentences this week. We have learned that all sentences are a complete thought that have a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end. The children are given sentences and need to be able to identify that each sentences is missing a capital letter at the beginning. We are correcting our work with a red crayon so you will be able to easily recognize the mistakes and reinforce the skill that I will take for a daily grade each Friday. So make sure to spend some time this week writing and correcting sentences. We will have our first grade this Friday.
MATH
We begin each math lesson with our new "Calendar Companion" notebook. Many skills are covered during this time and will be reviewed daily to help stretch our thinking! We finished Ch. 1 and have moved onto Ch.2 this week, which focuses on more addition concepts. Remember when a review sheet comes home the test will be the very next day.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES
We will spend this week and next talking about our "five senses."
*Signed papers will go home on Thursday along with their DIBELS report and a Scholastic Book Order. Please carefully look over them, sign and return promptly to school.
WISH LIST for ROOM 121
clear page protectors
washable ink pads
colored copy paper (no cardstock)
watercolor paint sets
