Highlights High Five Magazine

Today your child will be bringing home a yellow flyer informing you about all the amazing things Highlight's High Five Magazine offers. :) We realize many of you will not want to fill out the form and instead go straight online to order~ so we wanted to make that available to you. 

For those of you that aren't familiar with Highlights High Five. Allow us to explain... it is a colorful monthly magazine that has activities, stories and puzzles all geared to your child's age and beginning reader level. Over the years many of our students have ordered Highlights High Five and it's really helped them fall in love with Reading. 

Try ordering and maybe it'll have the same effect on your child! :) Also, right after you order online you will get access to the digital editions. 

To order online, go to: Highlights.com/FunForSchool

When ordering online, you will need to have our Teacher ID and School #. You can find that information listed below. 

Our Teacher ID is 08200229555

Our School # is 0111942161

Open House Slideshow

Thank you to everyone that took time out of their busy schedules and made it to Open House tonight. If you weren't able to make it, do not worry!! Your child will be bringing home a copy of this slideshow and a Ziploc Baggie filled with the information we discussed. 

Graham joined the 5-Year-Old Club

Today the students celebrated Graham's Birthday during Recess with cupcakes and milk. :) 

Happy Birthday Graham!

Fun Friday Snack Sign Ups

Our class is a Community and we do a lot of things together... including Fun Friday Snacks. :) We have had one parent reach out and ask to sign up for Fun Friday Snacks. We hope to have more parents email us and request one of the dates. If you don't want to request a particular date, we'll assign the next available date. 

Email us at Finocchiaj@duvalschools.org & Crofth1@duvalschools.org. 

Week of August 20

We are super excited for Week 2!! Last week was a good introduction to our Classroom Rules and Expectations. Thank you to everyone for discussing their child's Daily Color with them and the notes we wrote. This week we will do a little review of our rules, but we're really hoping to start some Academics! :) 

Our Resources this week are as follows: MONDAY~ ART, TUESDAY~ART, WEDNESDAY~MUSIC. Wednesday is also Graham's Birthday! He is joining the 5 Year Old Club.

Friday is Team/Sports Day. Make sure to wear a shirt that supports your favorite team or sport. :)  Malu is bringing in Fun Friday Snacks!! 

MATH

This week we will practice our fluency skills of counting to 10 using our hands, objects, and math tools. Along with rote counting we will start practicing writing our numbers 0-10. In our math lessons this week we are focusing on sorting and classifying objects based on their attributes. Our vocabulary words will include: sort, groups, similar, exact same, different, size, and color. Students will be learning how to classify items based on their size, shape, color, etc.
Here are a few videos you'll be hearing your child sing or tell you about... (We Love Jack Hartmann)

WRITING

This week during writing will be focused on details for drawing people. We will practice drawing people that have a neck and a torso, with arms and legs extending out of  the torso. DO NOT worry if your child draws arms and lets coming out of their head. The more we practice and discuss the details, the more they will begin to try drawing people correctly. 

You'll notice your child saying some of the phrases we use in Writing. Some examples might be: "Draw a neck or your head will fall down like mashed potatoes." "You've got muscle arms make sure to draw them." "Do you have stick legs? NOOOOO. Draw your muscle legs." "Be careful with your hands... we don't have firework fingers."

SAXON/READING SKILLS

We are beginning with letter Ll. Letter l is the hardest sound to make in the English language, however it's the easiest to write and gives the students confidence that they are learning. The letter sound is difficult do to the laziness of people say "luh." DO not allow your child to add the "uh" to any of our letter sounds. Here's a video to practice the sound. :)

Every week we will practice spelling and reading 4 sight words. Below you will see this weeks words in a slideshow. We use this exact same slideshow in class. So make sure to practice with your child at home too!

READING
Every week we will focus on Reading Skills. This week we will work on Predicting, Retelling, Connecting, Identifying a Problems and Finding a Solution. We will do all of this using the book Chick Chika Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr and John Archambault.
If you aren't familiar with the story, check out the Youtube video below.

SCIENCE
On the days we don't have resource we get to learn and engage more in Science activities. This week on Thursday and Friday we will begin focusing on our 5 Senses. We will read a book and do some activities to check for understanding.

Open House Dates!!

There are two Open House dates:

Kindergarten, First and Second Grade has Open House on Thursday, August 23 @6:00. 

Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade has Open House on Thursday, September 6 @6:00.

There will be a Title 1 Meeting @5:30 before both of the Open House Events. 

August Calendar

We will be sending home a copy of the August Calendar on Monday. However, we know many of you like to plan ahead and... if you were to lose the copy we send home. You can go on here and print yourself a new copy. :)