Monday, April 15, 2013

Newsletter 04/15

Weekly Goals


Reading: Blend and segment words with four or more sounds. Change beginning and endings of words to create new words (cat to can, pan to pat, lap to nap, etc.)

Language: Identifying nouns and verbs in a sentence. What is the difference?

Math: Solving simple subtraction sentences.

Sight Words: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Practical Skill: Stating address. Please make sure that your child is able to recite house number, street name and city.

Theme: Name and categorize different types of foods. Classify tools and ingredients. Name and describe different cultural foods.

Weekly Reminders

Our Reading Rewards Word Test will be this Friday afternoon. Each child has taken a pre-test and words to work on have been sent home. Please make sure that your child is prepared for this test. All students that pass the test will be invited to go on a bowling field trip.

Our spelling test will be this Friday. Word cards are included in your child’s folder.

We will be going on a field trip this Friday, April 19th to see a play at Lovett Auditorium. Please make sure you have returned field trip money and permission slips by tomorrow.

We are collecting empty cereal boxes in order to create data clipboards for a field trip. Please send in any empty boxes that you have at home.

Snack Shack will be this Friday.

Spring Pictures will be April 17th.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Weekly Newsletter 02/04/13

Weekly Goals


Reading: Identifying blends in words and sounding out words with four sounds. Circling the action word (verb) in a sentence. Stating the two sounds that the letter e makes (knowing that e can be “sneaky” and silent on the end of words).

Language: Classifying sentences as telling or asking. Identifying correct punctuation (period or question mark) for the sentence.

Math: Comparing sets of numbers. (Ex: How many more is 10 than 7?)

Sight Words: Color Words

Practical Skill: Stating birthday (month and day).

Social Studies: Understanding the importance of banks.

Weekly Reminders

If you have not sent in field trip permission slips or the $3.00 admission fee please do so ASAP.

Our field trip to see Cique Ziva at the Carson Center is this Friday. Please encourage your child to wear tennis shoes and his/her Cuba shirt.

Homework packets are due on Friday.

Our Color Word Test is on Friday.

We will have Snack Shack on Friday. Please send in $1.00 if you would like your child to participate.

Blends Video

We are working on identifying, reading, and creating blends in the classroom.  Please review this video with your child and encourage him/her to write some of the blends from the video. Happy viewing!

Friday, January 25, 2013

Weekly Newsletter 01/28/13

Weekly Goals


Reading: Identifying blends in words and sounding out words with four sounds. Circling the action word (verb) in a sentence. Stating the two sounds that the letter e makes (knowing that e can be “sneaky” and silent on the end of words).

Language: Classifying sentences as telling or asking. Identifying correct punctuation (period or question mark) for the sentence.

Math: Numbers to 100 (counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s). Classifying numbers as odd or even. Noticing patterns in 100 chart.

Sight Words: Color Words

Practical Skill: Stating birthday (month and day).

Science: Contrasting hibernating and non-hibernating animals.

Weekly Reminders

Please turn in all Cirque Ziva (Carson Center) field trip permission forms by Friday, February 1st.

Homework packets are due on Friday.

Our Word Test and our Chapter 8 Math Test are on Friday.

We will have Snack Shack on Friday. Please send in $1.00 if you would like your child to participate.

100th Day of School!



We had a great 100th Day of school!  Thank you so much for sending in the 100th Day Collections and snack items.  We spent the day celebrating numbers and how much smarter we are now than at the beginning of the year.  I'm looking forward to spending the rest of the school days as your child's teacher:)