Welcome back and HAPPY NEW YEAR!\u00a0 Can you believe that we are half way through the year?\u00a0 It’s always so amazing to me how quickly the year goes and how much they grow every month.\u00a0 I missed them so much…glad to see them and hear all of their news!<\/p>\n
Yesterday they took the READING portion of the NWEA test.\u00a0 This is the same test that was given in September and will be given again in the Spring.\u00a0 I am thrilled to report that ALL OF MY STUDENTS went up in reading!\u00a0 I am so proud of them.\u00a0 Thanks for your help on the home front.\u00a0 It’s a team effort, isn’t it?\u00a0 Next week we will take the Math portion of NWEA.<\/p>\n
This week I have met with each reading group.\u00a0 Next week, due to NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY and district assessments, I will not be meeting with the groups.\u00a0 Reading Groups (Book Bags will resume the week of January 22.\u00a0 \u00a0However, please continue reading the books at home with your child.<\/p>\n
Next week:<\/p>\n
READING-We will continue our unit about FOOD.\u00a0 We’ll read a story from our Anthology book about a Grandfather Bear who is Hungry.<\/p>\n
LETTERS\/SOUNDS\u00a0 long\u00a0i\u00a0<\/strong>and long o<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 This week we worked with long\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0e<\/strong>.\u00a0 There were work papers that went home this week with words on them, indicating words with long\u00a0a\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0e.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n WORDS-look<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0make<\/strong><\/p>\n We also have been working with different ways to connect texts (books) to things.<\/p>\n ie\u00a0\u00a0Text to Text<\/strong> -When reading a new story, does it remind us of another book we have read?<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Text to Self<\/strong>-When reading a new book, does it remind us of something about ourself, an experience that we’ve had, something we’d like, a trip, vacation, new sibbling, etc?<\/p>\n Text to World<\/strong>-When reading a new book, does it remind us of something we’ve talked about in class, in our community, on TV, etc<\/p>\n Have a casual discussion with your child as you read together or at the dinner table, riding in the car, just time together.<\/p>\n MATH-Assessments and Partner story problems.\u00a0 Students should be able to add and subtract fluently from 0-10.\u00a0 Practice at home.\u00a0 Doesn’t have to be written down, mentally is fine.<\/p>\n Remember that WEDNESDAY is LATE START.<\/p>\n Have a glorious weekend.\u00a0 Enjoy the beautiful weather.\u00a0 Appreciate life and each other.<\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back and HAPPY NEW YEAR!\u00a0 Can you believe that we are half way through the year?\u00a0 It’s always so amazing to me how quickly the year goes and how much they grow every month.\u00a0 I missed them so much…glad to see them and hear all of their news! Yesterday they took the READING portion […]<\/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-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}