Week of September 17

Here's to another busy week in Room 41!! We have Resources on Tuesday: MEDIA, Wednesday: P.E. and Thursday: ART. Then on FUN FRIDAY we have the Wild and Wacky Fun Run at 12:00! If you are able to come watch and cheer us on, please do!! :) Also, we will be dressed wild and wacky on Friday and Haleigh will be bringing in snack for the whole class. 

MATH
We are continuing to focus on numbers 0-5... recognizing them, writing them and counting/making groups for each of them. Make sure to practice this at home with your child.
We noted on the Detailed Progress Report who still needs to work on these items. Make sure to practice so that your child is ready for next quarter when the expectation moves on to #10. **If your child has already mastered 0-5, begin working on 0-10 now. :) 

WRITING

We are still working on drawing detailed people, however now we are adding to that by drawing a setting in our pictures. Settings are where the stories take place. There are many different places that students like to draw in their pictures: Chuck E Cheese, the beach, their homes, the park, etc. We expect the students to name a place~ we do not accept the response of "outside." 

We'll be making a class chart of settings. We will try to get a picture of it on the blog so that you can review it with your child. 

SAXON/READING SKILLS

This week Saxon has us focusing on letter Hh. We will be reviewing letters, Ll, Gg and Oo. Please make sure to review these with your child. It was very difficult for them to make the letter sounds, it was also tricky writing them. 

Here is a fun See It, Say It, Sign It letter video. Enjoy!!

The sight words we are focusing on this week are: purple, pink, to & and. The students will be tested on reading Sight Words before Report Card time. Make sure to check back on the other weekly blog posts so that you can practice reading the words with your child. The expectation is reading 20 words.

(We will be sending home flash cards with the sight words on them. We call them Sight Word Money.)

READING

This week the book we are focusing on is The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds.  We will discuss the feelings and emotions of the main character at the beginning of the story, versus how she was at the end of the story. We will work on retelling the events of the story in order. (We didn't get as much time to practice this last week as we would have liked. So make sure to practice it at home too!) Then at the end of the week we will pretend to be Vashti and make our own "dot" drawings!