Friday Note 4-19-2018

Thursday Note: April 19, 2018

No School Tomorrow or Monday!

Events of the Week: This week we started an Author Study on Laura Numeroff.  

• Language Workshop: We started by reading  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie  and identified the characters and setting.  We practiced retelling the story and sequencing the events. We then read several other If you Give books. We enjoyed comparing the stories.

• Writing Workshop: We introduced series of events writing.  We spent the week sequencing events in the right order and discussing that in order for our writing to make sense it has to be written in the correct order.  We practiced this by writing a whole group paper sequencing the events of eating birthday cake at a party. Later in the week, we wrote about a girl getting ready to go out in the rain.  Please look at this paper with your child and have them read it to you.

• Reading Workshop: We are continuing to work every day on applying the reading strategies to figure out unknown words in our books.  I am excited about the progress the girls and boys have made so far this year.  I will be assessing end-of-year reading levels in the next couple of weeks.  Please encourage your child to use the reading strategies when he/she is reading with you at home.

• Word Study: Our sight word for the week was “what”.  We are working on building and spelling simple words.  We’ve worked extensively on changing the beginning sound to make new words (for example: pig, dig, wig) and now we are working on changing the middle (pat, pit, pot) and ending sounds (hot, hop, hog) to make new words.

• Math: We have continued to work on counting objects to 20.  We are grouping them into sets of 10 and leftover ones.  We have done this both with ten-frames and without.  We are counting in two ways right now--the traditional way of counting (for example:  16) and the “say 10” way (ten six). This may seem confusing at first, but this is a great way for students to learn about the tricky teen numbers--to see that the number 16 is a set of 10 and 6 ones.

Important Dates:

• April 20 - No School!
• April 23 - No School!
• April 27 - Kindergarten Screening - Kindergartners WILL attend school this day!!
• May 2 - Kindergarten Field Trip
• May 23 - Last Day of School!!!

We Need Your Help!

Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 26th and 27h.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:

• Birth Certificate
• Shot Record
• Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)

Next Week:

• We will continue our author study on Laura Numeroff.
• In math we will continue learning about numbers 11-20.
• We will continue working on sequence writing.
• During word study we will continue to make and spell words.
• Our sight words will be “no” and “so”.  

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wenger