Dear Parents, January 14, 2013
Our reading strategy this week is summarizing and the comprehension skill that will help us with that strategy is making generalizations. Paying attention to the beginning, middle, and end of the story will help us with summarizing and paying attention to the details can help us in making generalizations. Our phonics focus this week is on the long sound of /a/ in the CVCe pattern – consonant, vowel, consonant, final (silent) e. (Words such as cake, made, late). We are also working on the soft sound of /c/ (as in face) and /g/ (as in cage). We will be taking a look at word endings: ng, nk, and nd and we will also review the consonant digraphs, th, wh, sh, ch, and tch. Our spelling words are from unit 20 and follow the CVCe pattern for the long sound of /a/. We are moving along! Now, we have 10 basic words and 2 challenge words every week! This week, Wednesday’s homework will be to write 7 sentences (5 basic spelling words and both challenge words). Our grammar focus this week is on determining whether a sentence is a telling, asking, or exclamatory sentence.
We are spending some extra time on our math lessons from last week. It is very important that the ones, tens and recognition of numbers to 50 be mastered before we can continue our lessons. Please work with you student as they complete their math homework.
In religion we will be discussing how families share life and love. We will continue creating our animal shelters in science and continuing our social studies unit “In and Around the Land”.
Reminders for the week:
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
- Wednesday is $1.00 free dress.
- Thursday assembly at 11:00
- Friday is Primary Centers, a noon dismissal day, and the beginning of a three-day weekend!!
- Friday is also the 100th day of school! Yippee!
- It’s All About… Dylan this week. Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week!
Miss. Manning
