Can you believe that we are already at the end of September! \u00a0Wow!<\/p>\n
Here is what’s coming up this week…<\/p>\n
We will continue with week 2 of Unit 1 called Families Get Together. \u00a0Our letter this week is “A a” and our word is “The \u00a0the.”<\/p>\n
(Last week’s letter was “M \u00a0m” and the word was “We \u00a0we.”) \u00a0Putting last week’s letter of M with this week’s letter of “A,” we have<\/p>\n
a new word “am.” \u00a0Look for writing to come home with these words on it.<\/p>\n
Last week we had a district writing prompt. \u00a0The students had to write to a prompt and I graded it according to our 6 + 1 rubric.<\/p>\n
The students will have more of these writing prompts as we progress through the year. \u00a0Last week’s writing gave a baseline for each student’s writing level.<\/p>\n
READING-I have accessed all students reading levels and each are in a reading group. \u00a0I will be teaching different reading strategies to each group. \u00a0The strategies are part of our<\/p>\n
CAFE Menu. \u00a0CAFE stands for:<\/p>\n
C<\/span>omprehension \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0A<\/span>ccuracy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0F<\/span>luency \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0E<\/span>xpanding Vocabulary<\/p>\n We also will be discussing NON-FICTION writing. \u00a0They already know about FICTION \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our WORK TIME will include sentences with our words\u00a0I \u00a0Can \u00a0We \u00a0The.<\/strong> \u00a0 Have your child spell and write these words by themselves. \u00a0Have them give you a sentence using each word. \u00a0Make sure they give you a complete sentence…we’re practicing speaking in complete sentences. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WRITING-Our writing focus will be on writing\u00a0lists.<\/strong> \u00a0Last week’s writing focused on\u00a0labels.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Mini-lesson will be writing the letters correctly. \u00a0Remember, NO letter starts at the bottom of the line. \u00a0All letters begin at either the top line or the middle line.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MATH-Number Awareness \u00a0Where do we find numbers? \u00a0We also will discuss same\/different, position words, we’ll make patterns with blocks & bears, and we’ll play a game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I sent home a Scholastic Book Order form. \u00a0Although we just had the Book Fair, I saw some Good Fit Books in the order choices and I wanted to make them available to you.<\/p>\n I will send home an order form each month. \u00a0Ordering is optional! \u00a0If you choose to order, please return the completed order form with a check for the total. \u00a0NO CASH, please. \u00a0Make out checks to Scholastic Books.<\/p>\n A special thanks to Trent’s mom for some really fun, hands-on science things that she shared with us! \u00a0The items went along with our Science and Reading Unit about our 5 Senses.<\/p>\n Thanks Trent and Mom!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We also celebrated Zahraa’s birthday last Friday! \u00a0Happy Birthday Zahraa. \u00a0We’ve had 3 birthdays already this year…Natalie, Fatimah, and Zahraa. \u00a03 new 5 year-olds \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can you believe that we are already at the end of September! \u00a0Wow! Here is what’s coming up this week… We will continue with week 2 of Unit 1 called Families Get Together. \u00a0Our letter this week is “A a” and our word is “The \u00a0the.” (Last week’s letter was “M \u00a0m” and the word […]<\/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-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}