Week of September 10

Hello!

Here is what we will be doing in class this week.
DIBELS Testing is Monday and Tuesday in the morning!  Please make sure your child is at school on time-  Our class will be testing from 8;30-10:30 on Monday and Tuesday only.

Remember that on Monday we have our 2 minute math fact quiz.  A lot of the class is on 3s and 4s but there are still quite a few on their 1s.  They have to get 40 problems right in 2 minutes to move up.

Reading/Vocab/Phonics/Grammar-We will start working with rhymes.  Our focus in Phonics this week is on short o, e, and u.  In Reading, we will read a story called Maria Celebrates Brazil.  which goes along with our theme on “families”. This will relate to our genre that we a re introducing-Realistic Fiction. Our reading strategy continues to be “visualizing” the story we are reading. I will introduce characters, settings, and events to the class.

In Grammar we continue working on Commands/Exclamations  (types of sentences), as  well as adding -s and -es to make plural nouns., and figuring out what root words are.

Their ELA quiz will be on Friday.

Math this week is on Understanding Mental Math Strategies (Making Ten).  They will have their Math quiz on Friday.  

Social Studies will continue learning about our community.  

If you have made it this far, CONGRATULATIONS!!!I just have 2 more things to let you know–I have finally received the majority of the papers from those who would like to help in the classroom or do work from home.  I will be putting out a schedule, hopefully by Friday, of the dates and times that you can come and work.  If you aren’t on the schedule, please feel free to come in and I will put you to work.

PE-please make sure your child is wearing tennis shoes on the days he has PE.  Our class is split into 4 PE classes.  1/2 of our class goes to PE on Monday/Wednesday and the other 1/2 goes on Tuesday/Thursday.  I have several girls who were heard talking that they would wear shoes with heels or they would tell the teacher they were sick so that they don’t have to participate.  I will be checking with the teacher to make sure that they are participating.

Thanks for taking the time to read this 🙂  
Ms. Blok