Ms.

Glidewells

to the class. If you would like to come and watch

your child, we will do our experiments at 11:0511:30.

Class
December 5thDecember 9th 2016
Dear Parents,
This week in Readers Workshop, we will
read, Our Special Sweet Potato Pie To increase
reading comprehension, we will work on
segmenting letter sounds in words, rhymes substituting
letter sounds, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes,
and language awareness with sentences.Wewill
Summarize (A good way to understand a story is to
think about the important key events and the order in
which they happen. We can retell the story from
beginning to end.) Make Inferences (Sometimes we
must figure out things in the story ourselves. Paying
attention to the important events gives us clues about
the story.) Literary Element: Rhythm (many poems
have a rhythm or a beat like music) and Alliteration
(words that begin with the same sound)

Wish List
Books we need for an upcoming writing unit:
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman
Can I Keep Him? By Steven Kellogg
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Williams
Can I Have a T-Rex Dad? By Lois Grambling
Dont Let the Pigeon drive The Bus by Mo Williams
(New or used, paperback or hardback)
Ways you can support your childs learning at
home:

Have your child read to someone each night for 1015 min.

Have your child practice writing simple sentences

paying attention to using spacing between words

Play a word wall word game from the back of the

word wall sent from back to school night.

This week in Writers Workshop we will continue

our How to books. We will be focusing on using spacing
between words, capitalization and punctuation, and
pointing to the words to reread our writing to see if it
makes sense. We will work on correcting our writing so
it will make sense to others. In Math we will play many
games to reinforce numbers and counting backwards,
comparing numbers, composing and decomposing
numbers, and counting on from a certain number,
writing the number before and after a given number.
For Social Studies we will be talking about
Holidays and Traditions. We have a few parents coming
to teach our class about a special holiday/ tradition, In
Science, we will continue our scientist of the day
lessons.

Holidays and Traditions

Parents or grandparents are invited to come and do a lesson
for our class any day in December about a special holiday or
tradition! These lessons will be during social studies
right after lunch at 12:10 and last 20-30 minutes. The
forms came home last week. If you cant find it and want to
participate, just send a note in the folder!

List of words for the year:

I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are, for, this, do, and,
what, you ,little, said, here, was, she, he, has ,look, with, my, me,
where, when, who, at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get, had, want, not, on,
us, that, him, her, they, could, some, one, two, three ,four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple, black,
white, brown

Help your child sound out words and write about a

topic of interest using details in a story and
drawing pictures to go with the words.
Count backwards from 20
Generate a number that is one more than or one
less than another number up to 20 ( also a new
requirement from the state)
Practice counting by 5s to 100 orally
Have your child practice writing first and last
name (assessment this nine weeks)
Spell CVC words (spelling test assessment this nine
weeks on a word using each vowel)

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Scientist of the Day
Look for a note and science experiment that came
home last week with your child. Your child was
assigned a day and a project. Your child will do the
experiment at home and then bring in the materials
and explain it and do it with the class. Projects will
begin Nov. 28th and end in early January. Your child will
be graded on the experiment and his/her lesson taught

Book Baggies
Read every night
Looking forward to a great week!
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell