September 7-11 Newsletter

We enjoyed another week full of learning activities! I do have a few things to go over with everyone. By this point, almost every child has brought their bag of books home with them. When your child brings their bag of books home, it means that they have received a new book from me. They are to take their books home, read them with family, and return them to school the next day. It is very important that your child always brings their books back to school. We use them each day for familiar reading time. Also, at this time, various students are currently in reading interventions after lunch, which means that they are missing our phonics time. This is perfectly fine, as they work on some phonics work during their reading groups. I will still be sending the word lists home with everyone at the beginning of the week, so you can still go over the skills and words with your child. They will not be tested on words they are not being instructed on during the school day. I will be assessing their level of phonics knowledge during writer's workshop and guided reading word work.

Reading/Units of Study: We will be able to identify the central message. We will be able to collaborate and listen to our peers by working together and sharing our ideas. We will be able to tell about the plot of a story.
Writer's Workshop: We will be able to include details to write a sequenced narrative. We will able to include an opening sentence, beginning, middle, end and a closing. A narrative is a story with characters, a setting, and a beginning, middle and ending. We will be able to write a narrative about a time that we were a good friend.
Math: We will be able to subtract using the minus sign. We will be able to act out subtraction stories. We will be able to compare to find the difference. We will be able to use models to find the missing part. We will understand the meaning of subtract, difference and subtraction sentence.
Phonics: We will be able to read and write words with blends. A blend is a letter combination where each letter keeps its original sound and can occur at the beginning or end of a word. A blend is different from a digraphs because each letter makes a sound. Here are our words for the week: scab, gift, snug, flex, frog, skit, globe, state, pride, flute, smoke, plate. Also, here are some videos and games that will help with learning blends!
Learn to Read video
Consonant Blends video
Blends Song video
L Blends Game
Initial Blends Game