Week of Feb. 26

On Monday we will have a Fundraiser Kick-Off Assembly! Make sure to check out the blog for more information and check out your child's backpack for the big envelope of information. 

On Wednesday we have our Library Field Trip to Webb Wesconnet Library~ this is the library that Mrs.Noah Thomas works at, however she will not be the one doing Child's Story Time. Your child will be checking out a book using their Lunch Tag. You can choose to return the book to any library location or return it to school and we will drop it off at the library. :) 

On Friday it is JEANS DAY!! We hope to see ALL of the students participate in this Fun Friday Activity. Zacari will be bringing in Fun Friday Snacks for the Class.

MATH
Please make sure to be practicing number bonds. We have been working on the different parts for making numbers 5, 6 and 7. The students are slowly getting it... and with your practice it'll all sink in!

Here is an example of the Rainbow layout for number bonds and equations. Each color represents a different way to make the number 10.

READING

We are still working on retelling a story in the order the events happen. Last week's test proved to be too hard for many of the students... So PLEASE make sure to watch the youtube video and review the events with your child. Also, practice asking them questions using the words~ beginning, ending, before and after. Here are examples:

What happened at the beginning of the story?

What event happened at the end?

What happened before the animals were in the hardware store?

What happened after the animals all had a bath and complained?

SIGHT WORDS/ SAXON/ BLENDS/ WORD FAMILIES and MORE

We are doing a lot of reading skills testing this week!! The students that did not master these skills at Progress Reports will be tested again. The skills are: ending sounds of pictures, rhyming words, adding/substituting beginning sounds and reading a Level 1A book (this book allows them to use all of the decoding strategies that Saxon has taught, along with the reading/ sight word strategies we have taught.)

Here are the Sight Words for the week. PLUS remember that this quarter your child is expected to read 60 Words. **The students that complete this expectation will enjoy a Sight Word Picnic with Mrs.Croft and I in the school courtyard. :) 

Saxon is continuing to practice the c or k spelling rule, along with finding digraph ck and having the students underline the two letters together. Make sure to review all the Saxon papers that get sent home with your child.

WRITING

We are still working on the Friendly Letters for the teachers at school. We don't get a lot of time for writing, due to all the reading skills... so it's taking some time to finish these.