Good Morning!  I hope you and your family enjoyed some family time together in this beautiful, fall weather.  Cool and crisp!

Thanks to those who have returned the Howard Behavior Plan.  If you have not returned the Howard Behavior Plan, please sign and return it.  I still have several missing.

This week…

READING- We are in week 3 of our Start-up Unit.  This week we will review our words, I  Can  can, from weeks 1 & 2.  I have also added using a period at the end of sentences.  We also will be discussing sounds.

This week we will discuss Position Words (above, between, beside, top, behind, …)  Last week we talked about characters in stories.  This week we will focus on settings.  Can you visualize the setting as we read a story?  You can discuss these when you are reading bedtime stories!

WRITING-We will focus on each student writing their own sentence about I can…  (a complete, independent thought)

MATH-We will begin a number book.  Correct number formation will be emphasized.  I will begin assessing 1 to 1 correspondence with counting.  You can practice with them at home-have them count silverware, napkins, pennies, shoes, around the house.  They should touch each item as they say the number.  I will also be checking to see if they know that the last number that they say in counting items will represent the actual number of items.  For example, the student counts 18 shoes.  I ask them, “How many shoes are there?”  They should answer “18.”

Looking ahead…Book Fair Purchases are today.

Enjoy your week.

Mrs. Smith