Dates to Remember
Monday, January 18 – Martin Luther King day – No school.
Wednesday, January 20 – Late Start – school starts one hour later. Library check-in and check-out.
Thursday, January 21 – Timeline Project due.
Friday, January 22 – Spelling test and spelling notebooks are turned in.
Testing for the week – This week students will take the NWEA reading assessment and the district writing assessment. The writing assessment will be an opinion writing piece.
Sight Words – I have completed DRA – Diagnostic Reading Assessments with students. Continue to review sight words with your child it helps significantly when reading early reader text books. Sight words are to be read automatically. Please practice having your child read their sight words nightly.
Spelling words for week – an word family – an, can, fan sight words – play, you, go.
First spelling test went well! Remember they are adjusting to taking a test and some need more time than others to sound out words and patterns. Practice other an word family words so your child understands word patterns. Again, by this time of year students should know their letters and sounds and able to recognize sight words from the beginning of the year.
Math – we will learn about 3D shapes this week and making shape comparisons. Understanding terms – greater than, less than, equal. Practice counting by ones, and tens. Practice writing numbers 1-20 and number words; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Daily Five – learning some new reading strategies when we come to a word we do not know. Reviewing vowel sounds and reading and writing CVC words – cat, fan, map, sit, etc.
Writing – District Writing assessment – Opinion writing. Finish unit on Penguins – Informational Writing. Identifying non-fiction text features.
Science – Push/Pulls.
Social Studies – Timelines will be introduced. Review vocabulary – past, present, future, yesterday, tomorrow, today.
If you are late arriving to school. Please go to the front door and go to the office and check-in if you are late. With the cold weather, I can’t leave the door open. It is disruptive for the class, if I have to get up and get the door when school starts when we are gathered at carpet. The bell rings at 8:40 am.
Mrs. Polgar