Good afternoon, Parents
We are off to a great
start to 2017 and it is hard to believe we are already in our third nine weeks
of school. We have some exciting things coming this month and I would like to
make sure you know we were are heading academically this nine weeks.
One of the more
difficult things we are working on our sight words. As we enter our third nine
weeks, students will be required to identify by sight 75 of our 109 words to
receive an S for the nine weeks grading period. Our words are getting hard and
it is very important for you to review our weekly words as frequently as you
can. To keep you better up-dated, we are going to have a Friday sight word quiz
where we check the students on the words from the previous week and the words
from the current week. This will give you a better idea of what words your
child needs to practice. We will also be doing several activities every week
with our sight words to help students learn their words. In particular, we are
reviewing number words which seem to be difficult for several students. Another
way to practice is to read the sight word books we do in class every Thursday.
Those books are great for our pre-readers and they LOVE to read to someone. We
will also begin sending home short passages with homework to practice reading
sight words and sounding out CVC words. It is an exciting time in our class as
our students continue to bloom and grow!
We will continue to work
on writing 5 Star Sentences using our sight words and word banks from the
seasons or holidays. Just to refresh your memory a 5 Star Sentence has the
following characteristics.
1. My sentence
begins with a capital letter.
2. My sentence
makes sense.
3. My sentence is
written with my best handwriting! (We are working hard on this!)
4. My sentence has
spaces between my words.
5. My sentence ends
with proper punctuation. (This is also a bit hard to remember, so we give
reminders! J)
Since
we are working on sight words and 5 Star Sentences, a new addition to homework
will be using our sight words in a sentence. Please remember that we are
beginning to write so short sentences are fine. J
In math, we will
continue working on addition and subtraction fluency, counting to 100 by both
tens and ones, and identifying both 2D and 3D shapes. We will also be
celebrating the 100th Day of School on January 25th,
which is an exciting time in our classroom and school!
One final note for
snacks! Thank you all for making our snack system flow very smoothly. We have a
couple of children who are watching their sugar intake, so if you can, we would
like to ask you to send in snacks that are limited in sugar. Crackers,
Goldfish, chips, etc. are great choices for snack for us. We appreciate your
help in this matter. If your child has a particular snack that is a sweet
treat, we are also fine with that. Sweet treats are good every now and then!
Thank you so much! J
Sincerely,
Sharon
Long
As always, please let me know if I can help you in any way!
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