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New News:
I hope everyone had a great
Labor Day weekend. It is
hard to believe that
September is already here.
We have had a great first
two weeks of school. We
are almost finished with
our kindergarten review at
the start the school year.
We will be quickly moving
on to new first grade
information.
Book bags began coming home
today. In the book bag you
have two pages of sight
words, a reading calendar
and a book at your child’s
reading level. Please
begin practicing your sight
word pages each night for a
few minutes. Some parents
cut the words apart and use
them like flashcards. This
helps the students learn
the words and not just the
order of the words. These
words need to be memorized.
Each month I will send home
two new pages of sight
words to add to the ones
you are already practicing
until you have all 150
words. Please include this
time as part of your
reading practice time each
night.
colored
in for each night of
reading. It needs to be
signed at the end of the
month and returned to
school by the first Friday
of the new month for
credit.
Finally, your child’s book
needs to be read three
times. The first time, the
book needs to be read
aloud with an adult or
older sibling. The second
time, the book needs to be
read aloud to an adult or
older sibling. The third
time, the book needs to be
read silently to themself.
I have received volunteer
information from several of
you. I have included
scheduled volunteering
times on the calendar.
Please check over these
times and make sure they
work for you. If you have
any questions or concerns
about volunteering please
let me know as soon as
possible. I will assume
that you want to work with
a small group of students
during your volunteer time.
If you would prefer to work
one-on-one with a student
or do clerical type
activities during your
volunteer time, please let
me know as soon as
possible. Unfortunately, I
will not schedule you to
come in to work only with
your child. It is a school
policy that siblings do not
come into the classroom
during academic times.
Siblings will not be able
to come in with you during
volunteering times. If you
are unable to volunteer at
your scheduled time, please
let me know so I will not
plan on you being in to
help.
“I Can” Statements
I can make new words using
word families.
I can tell about the
characters, setting and
events in my story.
I can tell you all the sounds
that make up a word.
Home Connection: Pick things
around your house with simple
names. Have your child
stretch the word out saying
each of the sounds in the
word and then attempt to
spell the word using the
sounds. It is ok if they
spell it incorrectly as long
as they are hearing all the
sounds in the word.
Math:
Reading:
This month in reading, we are
continuing to review all of
our letters and sounds. We
will begin to build our first
grade sight words knowledge
and vocabulary. We will work
with short /a/ and /i/ words.
The theme for the stories
this month will be “All About
Us”
We are working on
understanding numbers,
counting by 2’s, 5’s and
10’s, counting on and back to
find numbers and using a
number rack to quickly
identify numbers.
“I Can” Statements
I can read, write and show my
numbers to 50.
I can write a number sentence
with +,- and =.
I can tell you the value of
two coins using pennies and
nickels.
Home Connection: Ask you
child to count items around
your house by 2’s, 5’s or
10’s. If they cannot make
another group of ten, have
them count on by ones. For
example: 10, 20, 21, 22,23
for counting a group of 23
items by 10’s.