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Parent Teacher Conference Sign-Ups
I am so excited to show all the amazing things your student is doing during PTC. They are all learning, growing and improving daily. Currently, there are only 4 slots left on Tuesday January 28th and on Thursday, January 30th. Please check your schedule(s) ASAP, and sign-up for a time that works best with what’s left.I am more than happy to address any concerns you may have as well, however, if we run out if time be aware that we will have to schedule another time to discuss your concerns. You can choose a time that works best for you but PLEASE select ONLY ONE time slot.
Parent Teacher Conferences will be held 3:40-7:40 pm (A little earlier in my class) Tuesday, January 28th and Thursday, January 30th. I would like to meet with each of you, please sign up by clicking the following link: Conference Sign Up Form
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Elephants, Tigers and Books OH MY!!
Our next book fair is coming up!
Mon, Jan 27 – Fri, Jan 31 we will be open during school each day and during parent teacher conference evenings.
We need Volunteers! Please visit our Scholastic Quest Homepage to sign up. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/questac0120
We need Volunteers! Please visit our Scholastic Quest Homepage to sign up. https://www.scholastic.com/bf/questac0120
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Book Fair
From POQA:
Our next book fair is here!
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!
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Weekly Reminders
1- FRIDAY: Early Out 1:00pm*Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants)
2- Parent Teacher Conferences will be held 3:40-7:40 pm (A little earlier in my class) Tuesday, January 28th and Thursday, January 30th. I would like to meet with each of you, please sign up by clicking the following link: Conference Sign Up Form
3- Scholastic Book Order. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2: Scholastic Book Club
Upcoming:
January 20– No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 23- Early Out 1:00 p`m
January 24- No School
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Parent Teacher Conference Sign Up
I look forward to meeting with everyone Tuesday, January 28th and Thursday, January 30th for Parent-Teacher Conferences. I love sharing what first grade learning looks like, setting some goals for the year and celebrating all the amazing things your students can do! I am more than happy to address any concerns you may have as well, however, if we run out if time be aware that we will have to schedule another time to discuss your concerns. You can choose a time that works best for you but PLEASE select ONLY ONE time slot. Parent Teacher Conferences will be held 3:40-7:40 pm (A little earlier in my class) Tuesday, January 28th and Thursday, January 30th. I would like to meet with each of you, please sign up by clicking the following link: Conference Sign Up Form
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Optional Practice for January 13th-17th
**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.
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