Week of October 11th
Math Test: Friday, October 15th
Please review with your child the following concepts to be sure they are ready for Friday's math test:
-how to count and read tally marks
-how to count and add together nickels and pennies to get a total
-how to draw the hour and minute hand to the nearest hour
-how to add and subtract numbers up to 10
-how to count by 2s and 5s using a number line
Reading Strategies
Your child will be learning new reading strategies this week during guided reading time. The strategies are listed below, but can also be found on a bookmark inside your child's reading bookbag as soon as we learn them all. These are strategies for your child when they come to a word they don't know. Please feel free to look these over and also utilize with your child at home:) We will be learning one new strategy each day during guided reading for the next seven days!!!
Eagle Eye - Look at the pictures for clues to help figure out the word
Lips the Fish - Get your lips ready. Say the first few sounds of the word out loud, read to the end of the sentence and then say the sounds again.
Stretchy Snake - Stretch it out. Stretch the words out slowly and then put them back together again to say the word.
Chunky Monkey - Chunk the word. Look for a chunk or word part you might know.
Skippy Frog - Skip it, skip it. Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence and then hop back and read it, read it.
Tryin Lion - Try it again. Try to reread the sentence and then try a word that might make sense.
Helpin Hippo - Ask for help! After you have tried all of the other strategies, ask for help!
Text Talk
Your child will be learning new reading strategies this week during guided reading time. The strategies are listed below, but can also be found on a bookmark inside your child's reading bookbag as soon as we learn them all. These are strategies for your child when they come to a word they don't know. Please feel free to look these over and also utilize with your child at home:) We will be learning one new strategy each day during guided reading for the next seven days!!!
Eagle Eye - Look at the pictures for clues to help figure out the word
Lips the Fish - Get your lips ready. Say the first few sounds of the word out loud, read to the end of the sentence and then say the sounds again.
Stretchy Snake - Stretch it out. Stretch the words out slowly and then put them back together again to say the word.
Chunky Monkey - Chunk the word. Look for a chunk or word part you might know.
Skippy Frog - Skip it, skip it. Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence and then hop back and read it, read it.
Tryin Lion - Try it again. Try to reread the sentence and then try a word that might make sense.
Helpin Hippo - Ask for help! After you have tried all of the other strategies, ask for help!
Text Talk
Book: Mole's Hill
Vocabulary Words:
burst
gathered
quivered
strolled
compromise
obstacle
Please encourage your child to use these new words in their writing and speaking this week! They absolutley love using "big kid" words. We learn them every Wednesday and Thursday of each week:)
Please encourage your child to use these new words in their writing and speaking this week! They absolutley love using "big kid" words. We learn them every Wednesday and Thursday of each week:)
Poem of the Week
In 1492,
In 1492,
Columbus sailed across the sea,
In 1492.
For 70 days he sailed,
For 70 days he sailed,
Columbus sailed across the sea,
For 70 days he sailed.
He came to a new land,
He came to a new land,
Columbus sailed across the sea,
And came to a new land.
Exploring he did go,
Exploring he did go,
Columbus sailed across the sea,
Exploring he did go.
He sailed back home to Spain,
He sailed back home to Spain,
Columbus sailed across the sea,
Then sailed back home to Spain.
**We are focusing on the -ail word family this week to coincide with our poem of the week:)
I think that is it for now.....more to come!!!!! :)
**We are focusing on the -ail word family this week to coincide with our poem of the week:)
I think that is it for now.....more to come!!!!! :)
