11/15/14

I hope everyone is having a great start to their weekends!

Notes

• ·        This Friday I sent home student’s book bags. These are different from library books. I hope it is not too confusing. These bags are filled with books at your child’s reading level. There are a lot of paper books in the bags that have their sight words in them. These are great to help learn sight words and to help with reading fluently. Please have your child pick two or three books to read to you each night. I promise, taking 15 minutes each night will help them become great readers! These book bags are due back each Friday and I will put new books in there for them. Please be gentle will these books. They are from my own library, which are books I bought with my own money. Thank you!
• ·        Please send students with an extra pair of gloves and a hat to leave at school for this winter. It gets soooo cold out there. If it is not raining, we always go out. If you have extra gloves to donate for students who don’t have any, we would be very grateful=)
• ·        Next week’s Bible verse is much longer than normal. This Bible verse is for our Harvest Dinner for students who can attend. We will practice for 1.5 weeks on this.
• ·        Just a reminder, if you have a student who has a fever or is throwing up, they have to stay home for 24 hours without the symptom(s) before they can return. Many students have been out sick and we are trying our best not to continue to spread it!

Literacy

In reading we have started to work on blending sounds and breaking sounds apart. I am very happy with how fast they are picking it up! We are also starting to sound out CVC (Consonant, Vowel, Consonant) words (dog, cat, hat, pig). Most students know the sounds but are learning how to blend them together. Whenever you see these small words, help your child sound them out=)

Math

In math we are working on counting and writing to 20. I have started “testing” them each day. The tests get harder and harder as they go until they can write their numbers to 20! Practice is key!

New homework was sent home on Friday. Again this is optional. Many students like to do it because they get a prize though=) This will be due on November 26th to receive credit, right before Thanksgiving break.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Lee