What a busy week! Some of the highlights were our lesson with our school counselor, Mrs. Jones, working on computers during our media center time with Mrs. Hailey, a visit from a North Cobb High School student to read to us, and learning about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Next week in math we will begin our unit on time. We will also continue counting and labeling sets from 0-30 and work on learning our number words. Please practice writing numbers at home. Give your child a piece of paper and count items in the house and let your child write the corresponding number and for practice.
Next week in social studies we will start learning our city, county, state, and country. Please help your child learn these at home, along with their address. These concepts are difficult for them to grasp and require repetition and memorization.
We will start a science unit on matter next week, specifically looking at the properties of objects in terms of what they are made of.
We will keep reviewing ending sounds in phonics and begin working on our vowels. Continue to practice the sight words at home, next marking period each child needs to be able to read a minimum of 30 sight words. In reading we are talking about the elements and sequence of a story. When you read with your child ask them what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story. We have talked about 8 reading strategies we need to try when reading. I am sending home a list of these strategies for you to use with your child. When all the others don’t work we use the last one which is “Ask for help.” One strategy not included in the list is to “use popcorn words.” I tell the kids to see if the word looks like one of our popcorn words (sight words), that helps them figure the word out, too. Please keep the reading strategy list close by when you are reading so the kids can refer to it.
The 100 days of school is next Friday, January 27th. Your child is bringing their “100th Day Baggie” home today. Please count out 100 items of something (q-tips, elbow macaroni, cereal, etc.) and send it back in by next Friday. We will do math and science activities with their “100th Day Baggie” items.
Don’t forget letter of the week homework is to cut out pictures that start with the letter of the week. If you don’t have a baggie you can just put the pictures in your child’s folder.
Winston: Orlando
Star Student: Ridian
Secret Sack: Jenna
Letter of the Week: Ll
Word of the Week(s): little, look
Reminders:
1. Fri., Jan. 27th – 100 Days of School - Baggie of 100 items due.
2. Wed., Feb 1st – January Reading logs due If your child reads 20 books they will get a coupon for a free Pizza Hut pizza.
3. Fri., Feb. 3rd – My progress reports will go home (since we just had report cards).
4. Tues., Feb. 28th – Six Flags Reading Logs Due Six Flags gives each child the opportunity to receive a free ticket to Six Flags by reading 6 hours and handing in their Six Flags reading log. No late reading logs will be accepted. You can turn them in early once you have completed reading the 6 hours. (Any books read can be put on both the Six Flags reading log and the Pizza Hut reading log.)
