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:)

Monday, January 7, 2013

Weekly Newsletter 01/07/12

Weekly Goals


Reading: Describing the letter Ll and the sound. Identifying blends in words and sounding out words with four sounds.

Language: Creating complete sentences (vs. sentence fragments).

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

Sight Words: your, when, that, say, look, go, hot, Wednesday

Practical Skill: Writing first and last name.

Science: Identifying land and water on a map.

Weekly Reminders

We began our new Reading Groups today. Please make sure to sign and date your child’s book each night (Monday-Thursday). Reading Kits will not be sent home on Fridays.

It is very important that your child knows at least 40 of the sight words that we have studied so far this year. If you would like a complete list of words studied so far please refer to our classroom website.

Please return all Board Presentation sign-ups by Wednesday.

Homework is due on Friday.

We will have Snack Shack on Friday.