Week of September 17th

Well, it is officially the 6th week of school. WOW!!!  I am loving getting to know your sweet kiddos.  They are working so hard to learn routines, stations, rules, and me.  They are doing great!!!!  I always try to give y’all a breakdown of what the next two weeks will look like to give you a heads up on what to say and ask your kiddo about their learning.  We do have an early release next Wednesday for PLC teacher training.  A note will go home about the times soon!  October 5th is our Homecoming and there will be an early release day for that too so that any and all students who want to attend can.  We will release at 1:15 on October 5th for many reasons (traffic being the main one for our bus route).  Your kiddo can wear a mum or garter to school but we will take them off and keep them safe until it is time to be released.  Don’t forget picture day is Thursday the 20th.  Graded papers should be in their folders today.  WHEW!!!! Lots of info.

Spelling:  These are our words for the next two weeks: he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at  We have highlighted the first 10 words on our spelling list.  I will be holding them accountable for these words in their reading and writing from now on!  I do give an “authentic” spelling grade from their writing 2-3 times in a nine weeks.  This means I grade spelling words that they use when they write.

Phonics:  We should know short vowel sounds and are now working on long vowel sounds and word families.

Writing:  We are focusing on what gets a capital letter and penmanship.  Finger spaces, how we form our letters, and what is a good sentence.  We will begin our first class book this week.  Yay!!!

Math:  We are working on the greater than/less than/equal to vocabulary and signs.  We continue to do number talks to allow the students to share how they see and understand numbers.  We are also talking about addition and subtraction on the number path.

Science/Social Studies:  We are working on color mixing and doing some fun experiments with that.  We are also talking about our 5 senses.  We read and watch some awesome books and videos this week and next week we get to “test” our senses.  This is so much fun for your sweet kiddos.

I will be sending home a Scholastic book order form tomorrow.  You can send a check with your sweetie and I will enter the order or you can go online and order with a card.  My code is GZZHF!  Thank you for supporting me and your sweetie.

 

 

 

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