Happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed a nice relaxing Thanksgiving break with family. Below are the weekly updates and upcoming events!

12-5: Field trip to the theater (please be sure to pack a lunch this day)

12-12: Ann Arbor Hands on Museum (flyer came home today)

Kindergarten

Spelling tests will begin the week of December 11th. The spelling words will come home on the weekly homework packet and tests will be on Fridays. You will sign and return their spelling book each week 🙂

We will also begin our math fact test the same week. Each week I will let you know what the problems will be. We will begin with +0 and continue on from there. These tests will also be on Fridays.

1st grade

We have now finished our time portion of unit 3, students should be able to read and write times to the hour and half hour. We are still reviewing the vocab of “half passed” instead of saying 2:30, we would say half passed two.

We are continuing to work on addition and subtraction vocab to be able to identify what story problems are asking us to do. (more, less, how many are left). We will have our Unit 3 test as soon as we finish our story problem section, study guides will come home prior to the test and will have the test date on top.

 

I hope you have a wonderful week!

Mrs. Chammout

 

Parents,

Below are the announcements for the week, I am going to continue following the format of listing school related things at the top and then Kindergarten & first grade separately to help keep everything organized 🙂

11-14: The class will be visiting the Book Fair at 10:40 am

11-17: No school for Kindergarten students

11-15,11-16: Conferences

11-22,11-23,11-24 No school, Enjoy Thanksgiving with family and friends

Kindergarten

Spelling tests will begin the week of December 11th. Weekly spelling words will be listed on the homework packet and tests will be given on Friday’s. We have been working on stretching out words each day during our mini lessons and in our reading groups. Students will be expected to be able to spelling basic cvc (constant, vowel, constant) words for their test.

Please make sure students are reading the books in their bags and sight words each night for fluency.

I posted an anchor chart on 3D shapes. Students have now been taught both 2D and 3D shapes. We will continue working on our addition facts this week!

1st grade

Please make sure you have sent back your unit 2 math test. Reading bags were cleaned out today, your child should now only have one book in their reading bag, we will continue adding books to our reading back over the next 1-2 weeks.

We have now reviewed all blends and most digraphs, students are expected to be using these in their writing (I will have a chart out and available at conferees if you would like to take one).

I have posted many of our anchor charts to class dojo for you to view and refer to while you are working on homework at home. There is a poster for both addition and subtraction strategies the students were told they would be able to use to help them determine whether the math story problem is asking them to use addition or subtraction.

Math unit 3- time (hour and half hour), addition/subtraction on a number line, story problems.

 

Have a great week 🙂

Reminder: No school tomorrow for students.

Conference reminder times will be sent via class dojo.

11/15: Late Start

11/17: No school for Kindergarten students

Kindergarten 

• We will continue working on rhyming, syllables, and stretching out CVC words this week. This week for math, we will begin only placing touch points on one number in our addition problem to work on the “counting on” strategy.

1st Grade 

• We will be taking our pre-test for Math unit 3 this week and beginning unit 3.
• We have now taught beginning blends and have discussed medial vowels. Please make sure your child is now using these skills in their writing (we will talk about this more at conferences).