Week 19

We are reading the last story in this book. It is a fable called "The Fox and the Stork." A fable is a story that teaches a lesson. The new sound this week is the long o sound made by ow or oa. The new vocabulary words are:

door

kind

made

who

would

Questions of the Week

Monday - List 5 words with the long o sound.

Tuesday - What is your favorite snack?

Wednesday - List 5 words that rhyme with low.

Thursday - What would you do with $20.

Friday - List the people in your family.

In math this week, we will be doing more place value and exploring weight and volume. We will also be doing greater than and less than. We do these everyday as we take lunch count so greater than and less than should be really easy. Please continue to work with time and money at home as the opportunity arises. I am going to start paying the kids with play money this week. Then we can open the bank. They learn to trade coins and to count how much money they have. I will pay for all kinds of things like finished work, finished homework, good behavior, etc. I hope this will help us learn more about money.

Spelling seemed to pick up this week. I set the timer for 10 minutes and they can do nothing but practice spelling. It isn't very fun but the stamps and markers didn't seem to be working. They weren't concentrating on the spelling of the words when they were doing those activities. It was fun but not too beneficial!!!

We had a really good week back at school. The kids just came in and went to work. This is such a good class. Their reading scores were so good. It makes it such a pleasure to go to work.

Have a great week!

Week 19

This week we are reading a fable called "The Fox and the Stork".  A fable is a story that teaches a lesson.  The new vocabulary words are:

door

kind

made

who

would

In math, we will continue working on addition and subtraction facts and fact families. We will learn to measure in centimeters.  We will soon start taking timed tests for math facts.  They are something that we need to  learn to use automatically.  

Please continue to practice spelling words.  They are in the booklet that I sent home at conference time. The words that your child writes in the agenda now are vocabulary words.  I am trying to send a note with each child telling whether they passed or not and what list they are on.  I don't know if they are getting home to you or not.  We seemed to do better last week.  I think the practice at home as part of homework is helping. 

Next week we will be starting to have PE every day for 30 minutes.  People at the hospital are coming to run this program for us.  It will be a great thing for our students.  Hopefully this will encourage movement throughout their lives.  We have become such a sedentary society, with TV, computers, and video games.

We also have started the fluoride rinse program.  If you didn't send a permission back and would like for your child to participate, let me know and I will send another permission slip or you can just write a note giving your child permission to participate. Parent volunteers are helping us and it will happen once a week.

Have a great week.