Ms.
Glidewell’s
Class  
February 12th-16th 2018
Dear Parents,
This week in Reader’s Workshop, we will read, “Alicia’s Happy
Day” To increase reading comprehension, we will 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) Retell (A good way to understand a story is
to remind ourselves of what is happening in the story as we listen
and read. This will help you retell the story.) Informational Text:
Expository (text that explains or gives information: often contains
photographs). We will be rhyming, blending, onset fluency,
identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting letter sounds in
words, substituting letter sounds, adding phonemes, deleting
phonemes, language awareness with sentences.
In Writer’s Workshop we will continue letter
writing. We are reviewing question marks, periods and
exclamation marks. We are also making cards, lists, invitations, and
In Math we will continue money and financial
labeling.
literacy.
For Social Studies we will be learning about
Presidents. In Health, we will learn about
emergencies and who can help. We will also learn
about appropriate clothing for the weather.
Wish List
Random craft supplies for the free art center
Stationary-random extras are great
Science center items- I am updating the science
center with theme boxes- we would love seashells,
cool rocks, natural materials, plastic bugs and plastic
animals, discovery type items, a few larger child
magnifying glasses, small plastic skeletons, random
design and build type items (maker’s space items)
Valentine’s Day Party
Our party will be on Wednesday, February 14th. Look for
your class list with instructions making valentine cards!
The cards will need to be at school before the 14th, because
your child will be sorting his/her own cards as a language
arts lesson.
Important Dates:
February 16th -No School- Professional Development Day for
teachers
Feb. 19th- No School- Parent Teacher Conference Day
You should have received your child’s conference form and have
your date/time set if required or requested.

Major Assessments the third nine weeks:
Writing first and last name
 Spelling CVC words (we will have a spelling test)
 Decode (read) CVC words
 Retell beginning, middle and end of a story
 Making a connection to a story
 Rhyme
 Read 22-28 sight words for a grade of “2”

Compare fiction/Non Fiction books
Write a letter to someone
 Make an invitation
 Identify story setting, characters,
problem, solution
 Write using simple sentences, some
capitalization and punctuation and form letters
correctly, and use spacing between words
 Recognizing numerals to 20
 Rote count backwards from 20
 Skip count to 100
 Identify Coins
 Identify three-dimensional solids
 Compare/contrast using math vocabulary
 Generate a number that is one more than or one
less than a number up to 20
Ways you can support your child’s learning at home:
 Have your child read to someone each night for 10-15 min.
 Have your child practice writing simple sentences paying
attention to using spacing between words, capitalization and
punctuation
 Play a word wall word game (ideas on the back of the list sent at
BTS night)
 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.
To pass the word wall assessment this nine weeks your child
must read 26 words and this would earn a grade of “2” on the
report card
List of word wall 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.
Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice reading with a
high degree of success. Therefore, your child should practice rereading
aloud texts that are reasonably easy for them – that is, texts containing
mostly words that they know or can decode easily. In other words, the texts
should be at the child’s independent reading level.
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326
Class website
Go to https://gullettgeckos.com and click on Learning. Next, click
on kindergarten and scroll down to websites and click on my name.
You will see photos, newsletters and our schedule.