November has arrived and we continue to move along. \u00a0First report card marking will end this week. \u00a0Parent Teacher Conferences will be November 14, 20, and 21 and I look forward to sharing your child’s progress with you at that time. \u00a0I will send home a reminder of your time slot.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to our BOOK-IT readers who read for 20 minutes every night and turned in their calendar for a free pizza coupon! \u00a0Good job readers and you showed great responsibility by completing your calendar and turning it in on time! \u00a0(Fits right in with our Social Studies unit on responsibility and rules!) Parents, thanks for your support.<\/p>\n
My November Students of the Month are Jason Anderson and Fatimah Alharbi. \u00a0Congratulations!<\/p>\n
Important this week…<\/p>\n
TUESDAY 11-5 \u00a0NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS \u00a0District Professional Development for all teachers<\/p>\n
WEDNESDAY-Library Book due \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Please have your child (responsibility) pack her\/his book the night before so they can check out a new one.<\/p>\n
FRIDAY \u00a01-8 \u00a0Half Day for students \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a011:45 \u00a0Dismissal \u00a0 \u00a0End of first card marking<\/p>\n
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Here is a peek at our week…<\/p>\n
READING-We will finish our Unit about Friends. \u00a0Please continue to listen to your child read at home. \u00a0It is so important to help them read with\u00a0accuracy\u00a0<\/strong>and fluency.<\/strong> \u00a0In addition, it does wonders for their confidence. \u00a0Continue to work with PREDICTING when you are reading with your child. \u00a0Look for clues that can\u00a0predict\u00a0<\/strong>what will come next or what will happen at the end of a story. \u00a0I asked the students to\u00a0predict<\/strong> what color Mr. Denison would wear to school last Friday. \u00a0They predicted<\/strong> green. \u00a0When he walked in wearing green, I asked them what clues they had used to make their\u00a0predictions<\/strong>? \u00a0Good thinkers, Kindergarteners!<\/p>\n WRITING-This week’s lesson focuses on writing lists. \u00a0You can allow your child to really be involved with writing lists at home. \u00a0Let them write a few grocery items down is a list. \u00a0Or have them write a list of 3 or 4 things they need to do this week. \u00a0Many students can stretch out a whole word spelling it! \u00a0If not, they can at least get the beginning and ending sounds and letters. \u00a0Please make sure to let them say\/stretch the word. \u00a0Don’t jump in and make the sounds for them…they need to hear the sounds themselves. \u00a0Then they will connect the letters that goes with the sounds.<\/p>\n MATH-We will continue with number recognition and playing a game with Dominoes. \u00a0We will also work with more than, less than, with a game called Monster Squeeze!<\/p>\n SOCIAL STUDIES-This week we will extend our “Friends” unit to the community. \u00a0We will read a non-fiction article about Helping Hands. \u00a0How can we help friends in our community? \u00a0How can we be responsible, thoughtful of others, kind?<\/p>\n SCIENCE-Earth Science<\/p>\n Of course, READ TO SELF and READ TO SOMEONE is included every day. \u00a0Their stamina for reading and staying focused with their individual reading is increasing! \u00a0They are proud of it too!<\/p>\n Have a great week and remember to vote on Tuesday!<\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November has arrived and we continue to move along. \u00a0First report card marking will end this week. \u00a0Parent Teacher Conferences will be November 14, 20, and 21 and I look forward to sharing your child’s progress with you at that time. \u00a0I will send home a reminder of your time slot. Congratulations to our BOOK-IT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}