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Library Tomorrow
Library books are due every Thursday morning. Checking out books from our school library is a privilege.
To check out books students are expected to:
1- Follow the library rules (be respectful, follow directions, use a library voice, etc.)
2- Return library books (no outstanding books)
3- Select a book during the allotted time
Library day is tomorrow Thursday, JANUARY 16th. Please have your student come prepared to turn in their library book. Last week there were quite a few students who forget their library book and were unable to check out a new book.
Upcoming Book Fair
From POQA:
Our next book fair is coming up!
We need Volunteers! For us to be able to fun a successful book fair, we need volunteers at all time slots.
Monday, January 27 – Friday, January 31 we will be open during school each day and during parent teacher conference evenings on Tuesday, January 28, and Thursday, January 30. This is a great way to get those volunteer hours in!
Please visit our Scholastic Quest Homepage to sign up.
Optional Review 1/13-1/17
**Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required. We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading, increase fluency, vocabulary, and spelling .
Although we have optional reviews, we STRONGLY encourage your children to read. Reading with and too your children, and reading as a family has shown to increase student vocabulary, spelling and fluency. We have learned that the public library has a wonderful app to access amazing books online called Libby.
You can access the app information at this link: Libby Link By using your public library account, your students can log in and choose from thousands of books online for free to read to you, you to read to them, your family to read together, etc. Audio books followed along also are a great source to develop this love for reading with your child as they follow along in the book.
1- Optional Math Practice:
REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW
Monday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /a/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Tuesday: Words (spelling) with the short and long /e/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Wednesday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /i/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Thursday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /o/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Friday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /u/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
We will also be working hard on our new fluency passage: soil..DETAILS and RETELL, DECODING WORDS , ACCURACY and FLUENCY.
4-FLUENCY PASSAGE FOR THE WEEK: Here is the example. I hope you and your student will find the information interesting, as well as helpful in preparing for future fluency testing.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE FLUENCY PASSAGE. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help.
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good MEATY Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers can use to figure out the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together, then using the retell rope, have your student tell you what they read in order of event of information.
TUESDAY – THURSDAY
*AGAIN* POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY. Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.
PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.
Although we have optional reviews, we STRONGLY encourage your children to read. Reading with and too your children, and reading as a family has shown to increase student vocabulary, spelling and fluency. We have learned that the public library has a wonderful app to access amazing books online called Libby.
You can access the app information at this link: Libby Link By using your public library account, your students can log in and choose from thousands of books online for free to read to you, you to read to them, your family to read together, etc. Audio books followed along also are a great source to develop this love for reading with your child as they follow along in the book.
1- Optional Math Practice:
- The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student. Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.
- This is the standard we are working on this week:
- This is the standard we worked on last week: Test will be on Tuesday, January 14th.
- Optional: for extra math practice, play any of these Math Fact Activities 2018
- Language Arts this week:
REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW
Monday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /a/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Tuesday: Words (spelling) with the short and long /e/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Wednesday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /i/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Thursday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /o/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
Friday: Words (spelling) with the long and short /u/ vowel sounds, as well as nouns and verbs.
We will also be working hard on our new fluency passage: soil..DETAILS and RETELL, DECODING WORDS , ACCURACY and FLUENCY.
4-FLUENCY PASSAGE FOR THE WEEK: Here is the example. I hope you and your student will find the information interesting, as well as helpful in preparing for future fluency testing.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RETURN THE FLUENCY PASSAGE. It may take the entire 20 minutes to work through the passage on Monday. ALL the time your student spends on fluency counts toward their reading minutes.
MONDAY:
1st- Using a yellow crayon or high lighter, have your student highlight each word in the passage they can read correctly without any help.
2nd- Go back through the passage and have a “Good MEATY Conversation” about the words they were unsure of or didn’t know. Talk about what strategies good readers can use to figure out the word. Here are a few suggestions…CVC if there is only one vowel, it USUALLY make the short vowel sound, CVCe-is there an /e/ at the end of the word that makes the first vowel say it’s name. Is there a vowel team that follows the rule…When vowel teams go a walking, the first one USUALLY does the talking such as ee, ea, ai, oa, etc. Are there words within words like “ants” at the end of elephants…”and” in the word land…Go over the fact that they can skip the word and use the context of the sentence to help them figure out what the word is and if it makes sense.
3rd- Lastly, read the passage together, then using the retell rope, have your student tell you what they read in order of event of information.
TUESDAY – THURSDAY
*AGAIN* POINT OUT THE WORDS YOUR STUDENT KNOWS and then GO OVER THE ONES THAT ARE TRICKY. Have them sound out words that follow “Regular Rules.” Time them for ONE, one minute timing each day to see how far they can read on their own. Their accuracy/fluency should increase each time they read the sentences.
WE are looking for how many words they are reading correctly out of how many they read and then what they can retell.
PLEASE use the Re-Tell Ropes below OR the one I sent home, whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.
Little Caeser’s Fundraiser
Happy birthday, Sawyer!
Happy Birthday, Danica!
Cardboard Tubes Needed
1st grade is doing a S.T.E.M Challenge this month for which we need some cardboard tubes, so please consider dropping them into your child’s backpack to donate to our 1st grade by Monday, January 13 .
Thank you!! 🙂
Parent Teacher Conferences
I am trying to give you plenty of notice so you can get some time off work to come and meet with me. I have set up a SignUp Genius with the time slots available. There are plenty of slots so that I can meet with EACH of you about your child. It is very important that I meet with everyone to talk about your child’s progress and our goals. Please go to the link below to sign up for a time that works for you. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hurry, slots fill up fast!
Parent Teacher Conference Sign-up Genius link:
Parent teacher Conference Sign Ups
Optional Review 1/6-1/10
We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.
Middle of the year reading timed testing:
We will be doing middle of the year reading testing this week. I highly encourage your child to read the passage pages and complete the comprehension activity daily if possible so that they will be able to reach their benchmark goals during testing, timing your child for 1 minute and asking them to provide as much retell back to you about what the story is about.
Just a reminder about our reading preparation for middle of year testing. You’ll see below links to print reading passages for your students to practice. We begin testing the week we return from Winter Break. Please have your student practice these passages and complete the activities over the Winter Break so they can be better prepared for their testing session. It is very difficult without daily reading to achieve reaching the middle of the year required benchmark.
3 Level C Set 2
4 Level D Set 2 5
Level E Set 1
6 Level F Set 1
7 Level G Set 1
1- Optional Math Practice:
Optional: for extra math practice, play any of these Math Fact Activities 2018
2- Reading 20 minutes per day. No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order while they are focusing on the characters, setting, and events. As well as, making and confirming predictions.
This is what we will be working on in Language Arts:
Middle of the year reading timed testing:
We will be doing middle of the year reading testing this week. I highly encourage your child to read the passage pages and complete the comprehension activity daily if possible so that they will be able to reach their benchmark goals during testing, timing your child for 1 minute and asking them to provide as much retell back to you about what the story is about.
Just a reminder about our reading preparation for middle of year testing. You’ll see below links to print reading passages for your students to practice. We begin testing the week we return from Winter Break. Please have your student practice these passages and complete the activities over the Winter Break so they can be better prepared for their testing session. It is very difficult without daily reading to achieve reaching the middle of the year required benchmark.
- Students should read this passage three times each day Monday – Thursday.
- This counts towards the recommended 20 minutes of reading each day.
- This is suggested reading homework, but is not required.
- Parents may sign the worksheet and return it to school on Fridays. Students who completed and return their homework will be entered into a weekly drawing.
3 Level C Set 2
4 Level D Set 2 5
Level E Set 1
6 Level F Set 1
7 Level G Set 1
1- Optional Math Practice:
- The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student. Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.
Optional: for extra math practice, play any of these Math Fact Activities 2018
2- Reading 20 minutes per day. No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order while they are focusing on the characters, setting, and events. As well as, making and confirming predictions.
This is what we will be working on in Language Arts:
