Friday, April 27, 2018

Friday Note - 4/27/18

Events of the Week:

  • Math: We have started learning to compose and decompose numbers 11 to 19 into sets of tens and leftover ones.  We are also writing the number sentence to match (example: 10 + 8 = 18). IXL is a great way to practice at home.  

  • Language Workshop: This week we continued our Author Study on Laura Numeroff.  We read several “If you give books”. The students enjoyed hearing about the cat, dog, pig, and moose. We identified the characters and setting in each of the books and compared the stories.  We are putting a packet together that includes our response pages from this author study. 

  • Writing Workshop: We continued series of events writing.  We wrote about the If You Give a Cat a Cupcake book.  We also completed our first series of events writing assessment by writing about our morning routine.  
         
  • Reading Workshop: We are continuing to work every day on applying the reading strategies to figure out unknown words in our books.  I am excited about the progress the girls and boys have made so far this year.  I will be assessing end-of-year reading levels beginning next week.  Please encourage your child to use the reading strategies when he/she is reading with you at home.
         
  • Word Study: Our sight words for the week were “no” and “so”. We spent the beginning of the week reviewing building and spelling simple words.  We completed the assessments this week also.  Be sure to look over these assessments and continue to work on these skills at home.  If your child does not know all of his/her letter sounds, please be practicing daily with them.   

Important Dates:
·         May 2 - Kindergarten Field Trip
·         May 4 - Summer School registration ends
·         May 15 - Cox Care Mobile
·         May 21 - Reading Journey Due
·         May 23 - Last Day of School!! We will dismiss at 12:00.
   Breakfast and sack lunches will be served that day.  

Kindergarten Field Trip
The kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, May 2nd.  We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Discovery Center in Springfield.  If you are joining us for the field trip please be in our classroom by 8:35 to find out who you are helping chaperone during the field trip.  

Sight Words—Keep practicing!
I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he   she   to   can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are   they   in    do   not   at   said   was   for   this   what   so   no

**Reminder...these words have to be recognized by sight within 3-5 seconds to count on an assessment.  

Reading Journey
Please remember the goal is to be reading at least fifteen minutes each day with your child.  Our reading journey goal is to complete at least 20 activities by May 21st.  Make this a special time with your child.



Next Week:
·         We will continue our author study on Laura Numeroff.
·         In math, we will finish our module over numbers 11-20.
·         We will continue working on sequence of events writing.
·         During word study, we will learn about nouns and verbs.
·         Our sight word will be “am”.  
·         We will go on our field trip!!

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Vestal

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