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Hello Families!<\/span><\/p>\n Happy 16th week of Young Fives! This is our last week of school for the year 2017! I have enjoyed seeing all of the growth and accomplishments your children have been making! I pray 2018 to be full of more amazing accomplishments and lots of lots of laughter, love, and learning!<\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday, Dec. 20th is a Late Start! We will begin school at 9:30. <\/b><\/p>\n This is our last week for our <\/span>Sock Drive<\/b>. Please consider donating children\u2019s and adults\u2019 new socks for the homeless. The collection will go on until December 22nd. Our class goal is to collect 30 pairs of new socks!!!! We have 15 pairs of new socks so far!!! <\/span><\/p>\n Reading: <\/b>This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying main idea and key details of informational texts. We will learn about reindeer! We will still revisit some of the components of narrative literature as I read some of my favorite holiday stories! \u00a0This week we will continue to practice counting the number of syllables and having fun with rhyming words. We will continue practicing taking three sounds and blending them together to make words. So, if I had the sounds, m-u-g\u2026 I would blend it to read and say mug. This is one of those emergent reading skills that I talked with many of you about at conferences. I will also begin to introduce long vowels. We will begin with long a like in ape and cane.<\/span>We will learn the letter Xx. We will also learn the sight words up and make. Please practice writing these letters at home. Below is an example of how to write the letters. Please review: All upper and lowercase letters! Please review the following sight words: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I, it, in, said, for, am, look, here, can, is<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
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