Week of March 5

Green Day!!!

On Friday, we will all be GREEN!!!

This week is busy for Chimney Lakes. Not only do we have our school's Book Fair going on, but we also have the upper grades testing. On Tuesday, administration decided to cancel all Resources due to the upper grades testing. 

So we will have a few Resource times, however, if any get cancelled we will X them out on your child's Daily Conduct Sheet.

MATH

We are continuing to work on Number Bonds and Number Sentences. Our whole group numbers are getting LARGER!! The students are learning that many different partner combinations make up the larger whole group numbers.
Also, be practicing TENN NUMBERS!! We are looking for members for the Tricky Teen Number Club. To be a member you have to be able to  count through the teen numbers, recognize all the teen numbers and write all of the teen numbers. 

READING

Please check out the post titled Dr. Seuss.  

We are taking a step back from retelling stories and focusing on individual events and the rhymes that the characters say. Along with more SIGHT WORD PRACTICE (we're trying to get more students for our Sight Word Picnic). This zeroing in on events and text allow us to focus on Dr. Seuss' writing craft. 

SAXON, SIGHT WORDS, WORD FAMILIES, BLENDS AND MORE

We do so much with Reading Skills!! I could spend a whole day with this content. haha Saxon is zeroing in on the J and X sound. This is great because some students need these two sounds to get into the Sound Club!! This week your child will be bringing home to sheets of words to read. (We practice coding and reading the words in class, but students don't always get to record it on their paper. So please complete it at home!! (These sheets help boost your child's confidence and make them better readers and writers!) Finally we will work on coding silent e and putting a macron over the vowel that makes the long sound. 

Also, if you notice your child has trouble with rhyming- PLEASE watch the Dr. Seuss video's with them. This is a great time to master the skill!!

WRITING

We will be writing NEW friendly letters to the teachers (some parents may have noticed their child brought home the practice letter from the past few weeks) and then on Friday we are going to make our very own Dr. Seuss character... Be ready to find out how many arms, legs and silly looking hairdo's that these characters have!! 

We'll try our best to get some pictures and character names. hahahah