A copy of the book I Wanna Iguana by Karen

Ms. Glidewell’s Class


Orloff

 Random craft supplies for the free art center

 Empty candy boxes for the Movie center
 Used greeting cards (Please cut off the back where
someone has written on it and we will glue the front on
construction paper and make new cards) I would like to
collect these from you all year!

January 8th - January 12th 2018 Major Assessments the third nine weeks:
 Writing first and last name
 Spelling CVC words (we will have a spelling test)
 Decode (read) CVC words
Dear Parents,
 Retell beginning, middle and end of a story
 Making a connection to a story
This week in Reader’s Workshop, we will read, “Mama Cat Has
 Rhyme
Three Kittens” To increase reading comprehension, we will work
 Read 22-28 sight words for a grade of “2”
on segmenting letter sounds in words, rhymes substituting letter
 Compare fiction/Non Fiction books
sounds, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and language
 Write a letter to someone
awareness with sentences. We will Recognize Story Structure
 Make an invitation
(Stories have structure, or a way in which the things in the story
 Identify story setting, characters,
happen. For example, stories have a beginning, middle, and end.)
problem, solution
Make and Confirm Predictions (After we make predictions,
 Write using simple sentences, some
we can check to see if they are correct. Sometimes you can tell
capitalization and punctuation and form letters
what will happen in a story by figuring out its pattern.)
correctly
Informational Text: Expository (text that explains or gives
 Recognizing numerals to 20
information; often contains photographs)
 Rote count backwards from 20
In Writer’s Workshop we will be learning to write persuasive
 Skip count to 100
pieces. We will write about problems and try to find solutions. We
 Identify Coins
will work on correcting our writing so it will make sense to others.
 Identify three-dimensional solids
In Math we will be identifying, writing and representing numbers
 Compare/contrast using math vocabulary
to 20, rote counting to 100, counting backwards from 20, skip
counting.
Ways you can support your child’s learning at home:
For Social Studies we will be talking about Dr. Martin
 Have your child read to someone each night for 10-15
Luther King Jr. In Science, we will continue our scientist of the
min.
day lessons and begin living and non- living things.
 Have your child practice writing simple sentences paying
attention to using spacing between words, capitalization
and punctuation
Scientist of the Day  Play a word wall word game (ideas on the back of the list
Your child was assigned a day and a project. Your child will do the sent at BTS night)
experiment at home and then bring in the materials and explain it  Help your child sound out words and write about a topic
and do it with the class. Projects will begin Nov. 27th and end Jan. of interest using details in a story and drawing pictures
10th. Your child will be graded on the experiment and his/her lesson to go with the words.
taught to the class. You will need to keep your child’s experiment in
 Generate a number that is one more than or one less than
a safe place. The date will be on the instruction page. He/she will
another number up to 20 ( also a new requirement from
have a worksheet to record that will need to be returned and
the state)
explained to the class on the day of the experiment. Please keep up
List of word wall words for the year:
with the paper, it takes a lot of time for me to assign, put in my
I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are, for,
lesson plans, and copy and then go find the lesson and pull that
this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was, she, he,
particular information again if it is lost. If your child is sick on
has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who, at, how, up, can
his/her day, I will give them a makeup day in January. You are
, it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy, girl, yes, no ,if, mom,
welcome to come and watch your child teach the lesson. Please
dad, love, or, but, went, get, had, want, not, on, us, that,
practice at home and pretend to be the audience. We will have a Q
him, her, they, could, some, one, two, three ,four, five,
and A session at the end of each experiment. Our science time is
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green,
at 12:35-1:05. So, if you are coming just sign in at the office and
orange, purple, black, white, brown.
come to the classroom. This is so much fun for everyone.

Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell

Wish List
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
 A copy of the book How to Dress a Dragon by (512) 841-0326
Thelma Godin Class website
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