Dates to Remember:

Monday, January 13 – Music Assembly 2:30 p.m. Performance from singers from different countries.

Tuesday, January 14 – K-2 Music Concert 7pm

Monday, January 20 – Martin Luther King Day – School closed

Kindergarten

Spelling – Kindergartners will start the spelling program this week. On Friday, January 17 there will be a spelling test on the “at” word family

at, bat, sat. Sight words – and, I, a, my. Information on the spelling program will be in your child’s blue folder on Monday along with a spelling notebook.

Writing – We will finish up on our narrative writing pieces. This week student’s will review and take the District Opinion Writing Assessment.

Math – we will review and compare shapes, practice subtraction story problems, practice counting and I will assess for 2nd Card Marking. Students should be able to count to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s by the year end.

Science – We will finish science unit on Force/Motion.

Social Studies – We will finish unit on Economics/History. Student time-lines are due on Wednesday, January 15. A study guide will go home this week for students to prepare for a Economic/History social studies test the following week.

Reading – I will be assessing students for the District Reading Assessment this week.

First Grade

Spelling – Test will be on Friday, January 17. Spelling words “sh” word family – she, ship, shot, show,  Sight words – three, two.

I will be starting a new sight word program and discontinuing the sight word lists that I was using before. I have been using the Dolch sight word lists for assessment that corresponds with the Dolch Pre-primer, Primer, 1st grade, 2nd and third grade sight words lists. The entire list will be sent home this week, so you can review sight words with your child at home. First graders should know the Pre-primer, Primer and First grade list by the end of the year. Most students have mastered the words on the Pre-primer and Primer lists already with our weekly spelling tests, reading/word work in class. Again, information will be forthcoming this week.

Writing – Students will take the District Opinion Writing Assessment. We will review and practice forms of opinion writing prior to the assessment.

Math – Wednesday, January 15 first graders will take the Unit 4 Math Test. The study guide went home last week for review.

We started an introduction to addition facts/power facts on Friday. On Fridays I will begin timing students on math facts. First grade students by the end of the year should fluently add and subtract within 10. Students will master facts by 0’s, 1’s, 2’s, etc. until they move to a new fact list. You can help your child by getting a set of addition/subtraction flash-cards ( Dollar store sells them) Practice nightly so they become more fluent with math facts. We will also be reviewing place value with tens and ones using the calculator and base 10 blocks and cubes.

Social Studies/Science – We will be finishing up on economics in Social Studies and will begin reviewing for the Social Studies test. A study guide will go home this week to help prepare your child for the test.

Science – we will also finish up on the Science weather unit and review for the Science test. A science study guide will go home this week to help prepare your child for the test. Social Studies/Science test will be the following week.

Reading – I will be assessing students for the District Reading Assessment. Please make sure you are pulling book bags out of your child’s back-pack and signing the reading log. Student’s are returning book bags with no parent signatures. In addition, please have your child read the book(s) three times to help build fluency and then have your child do a retell – beginning, middle, end. Please read nightly with your child because they truly do become better readers and writers with support at home.

Mrs. Polgar