Vooks is video books brought to life and a great online tool for listening to stories. First 30 days is free— see link in post!!!
Vooks is a great resource to use in the home with your children. Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading. You can sign up for Vooks and use the take-home resources to help keep your children reading 20 minutes a day during these extraordinary times.
Oakman Folder- sign Behavior calendar for MARCH!!!** 🙂 🙂
Reading bag- ***45*** TOTALNEW SIGHT WORDS ARE IN THEIR BAGS— come, for, are, said, this, one, little, play, me, here, am, do, not, who, with, I, like, the, see, we, go, can, she, a, at, is, was, will, he, has, on, in, and, you, up, look, it, my, to, dog, want, yes, have, no, and her. Practice each night to MEMORIZE THESE WORDS!
READING GROUP BAG — TODAY Everyone got a new book or 2 to read three times each tonight, have someone sign when you’re finished. READ every day and focus on fluency and comprehension. To move UP reading levels students need to be able to read the words accurately and COMPREHEND (understand what I read). After reading books, please practice using the handout for the “retelling rope” see picture below!! (Don’t forget to ask your child– what was your favorite part of the story and WHY? or what did this story remind you of?) Story Retelling is KEY to comprehension!!! See if your child can tell you the following from their books in their bag, library book, and/or NEW book from this week Duck, Duck, Dinosaur!!
4. Spelling Notebooks— ****Test IS ON FRIDAY! New words are glued in black spelling notebooks for the week.
Thursday: Fun Sentences!
Write a sentence using one spelling word in each sentence. Make sure to include Capitals, spaces and punctuation!
5. NEW library book were chosen Tuesday!! Use these for minutes for reading log challenge for MARCH IS READING MONTH!!! ** 20 minutes every day!!!*** and working on retelling stories in sequence (order) — what happened in the beginning, middle, and end— we are doing better with characters and setting but having trouble with remembering the order of events.
Thanks for ALL you do!!!
Friendly reminder that THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 13 is a half-day with dismissal at 11:45.
Oakman Folder- sign Behavior calendar for MARCH!!!** 🙂 🙂
Reading bag- ***45*** TOTALNEW SIGHT WORDS ARE IN THEIR BAGS— come, for, are, said, this, one, little, play, me, here, am, do, not, who, with, I, like, the, see, we, go, can, she, a, at, is, was, will, he, has, on, in, and, you, up, look, it, my, to, dog, want, yes, have, no, and her. Practice each night to MEMORIZE THESE WORDS!
READING GROUP BAG — TODAY Everyone got a new book or 2 to read three times each tonight, have someone sign when you’re finished. READ every day and focus on fluency and comprehension. To move UP reading levels students need to be able to read the words accurately and COMPREHEND (understand what I read). After reading books, please practice using the handout for the “retelling rope” see picture below!! (Don’t forget to ask your child– what was your favorite part of the story and WHY? or what did this story remind you of?) Story Retelling is KEY to comprehension!!! See if your child can tell you the following from their books in their bag, library book, and/or NEW book from this week Duck, Duck, Dinosaur!!
4. Spelling Notebooks— ****Test IS ON FRIDAY! New words are glued in black spelling notebooks for the week.
Wednesday: Building Words!
Write each spelling word one letter at a time, for example:
c h
ca ho
cat hom
home
5. NEW library books were chosen Tuesday!! Use these for minutes for reading log challenge for MARCH IS READING MONTH!!! ** 20 minutes every day!!!*** and working on retelling stories in sequence (order) — what happened in the beginning, middle, and end— we are doing better with characters and setting but having trouble with remembering the order of events.
Thanks for ALL you do!!!
Friendly reminder that THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 13 is a half-day with dismissal at 11:45.
We are talking LOTS at school about washing hands and how to keep healthy!! Please ask your child about the steps for hand washing and what else they can do to STOP germs from spreading… here are the videos we watched today, their homework is to watch and teach their family at home what we learned in class today! 🙂
Oakman Folder- sign Behavior calendar for MARCH!!!** Thank you to all the parents who brought snacks to share!
Reading bag- ***45*** TOTALNEW SIGHT WORDS ARE IN THEIR BAGS— come, for, are, said, this, one, little, play, me, here, am, do, not, who, with, I, like, the, see, we, go, can, she, a, at, is, was, will, he, has, on, in, and, you, up, look, it, my, to, dog, want, yes, have, no, and her. Practice each night to MEMORIZE THESE WORDS!
READING GROUP BAG — TODAY Everyone has a book to read three times each tonight, have someone sign when you’re finished. READ every day and focus on fluency and comprehension. To move UP reading levels students need to be able to read the words accurately and COMPREHEND (understand what I read). After reading books, please practice using the handout for the “retelling rope” see picture below!! (Don’t forget to ask your child– what was your favorite part of the story and WHY? or what did this story remind you of?) Story Retelling is KEY to comprehension!!! See if you child can tell you the follow from their books in their bag, library book, and/or NEW book from this week Duck, Duck, Dinosaur!!!
Oakman Folder- sign Behavior calendar for MARCH!!!** CURRENTLY WE ARE OUT OF SNACKS— please send in for the month of MARCH ASAP***PLEASE and THANK YOU!!! 🙂 🙂 — ***Please remember to send in a healthy snack for the class (20 students). They love apples, bananas, goldfish, bars, etc— no juice or cookies please.
Reading bag- ***45*** TOTALNEW SIGHT WORDS ARE IN THEIR BAGS— come, for, are, said, this, one, little, play, me, here, am, do, not, who, with, I, like, the, see, we, go, can, she, a, at, is, was, will, he, has, on, in, and, you, up, look, it, my, to, dog, want, yes, have, no, and her. Practice each night to MEMORIZE THESE WORDS!
READING GROUP BAG — Read three times each tonight, have someone sign when you’re finished. READ every day and focus on fluency and comprehension. To move UP reading levels students need to be able to read the words accurately and COMPREHEND (understand what I read). After reading books, please practice using the handout for the “retelling rope” see picture below!! (Don’t forget to ask your child– what was your favorite part of the story and WHY? or what did this story remind you of?) Story Retelling is KEY to comprehension!!! See if your child can tell you the following from their books in their bag, library book, and/or NEW book from this week Duck, Duck, Dinosaur!!!
4. Spelling Notebooks— ****Test IS ON FRIDAY! New words are glued in black spelling notebooks for the week.
Monday: Rainbow Spelling!
Write each spelling word in pencil. Now use a crayon to trace each word in that color. Pick another color and repeat.
5. NEW library book were chosen Tuesday!! Use these for minutes for reading log challenge for MARCH IS READING MONTH!!! ** 20 minutes every day!!!***
Thanks for ALL you do!!!
TONIGHT IS FAMILY GAME NIGHT on Monday, March 9th 4:30-5:30— hope to see you there.
Friendly reminder that FRIDAY, MARCH 13 is a half day with dismissal at 11:45.
Reminders from the Oakman blog:
What is happening this week?
Reading month celebrations continue this week with several guest readers planned. Spreading the importance of reading and motivating students to read more is an important message that our guests aim to spread during this special month.
What is happening at Oakman this week?
Monday: Family Game night at 4:30pm in the cafeteria
Kindergarten Spelling Week of March 9th Test on Friday, March 13th! This week’s spelling words are: look my at run sun Plus 2 other words from the –un family (such as fun, bun, nun, etc.) Thank you for practicing spelling words EACH NIGHT by doing daily assignments (inside cover) in their spelling notebooks!
