Sight Words
Homework Tip
Build Confidence
• Help your child with
time management!
• Be positive about
homework.
• When your child
does homework, you
do homework.
• When your child asks
for help, provide
guidance, not
answers.
Upcoming
Happenings
Jan. 7 PSI Open
House 9:30-11:00 AM
Jan. 18 No School
Holiday
Jan. 17th Family
Movie Night @ 5:30
Jan. 22nd End of
Marking Period 2
Jan. 25th Professional
Day No School
Jan. 26 Third Marking
Period Begins
Lights, Camera, Action!
I Can
Reading: We will start our mid-year
M-class testing. It will be over by the
end of January. During MP3 students
will be reading informational texts.
They will be able to ask questions
about meaning of words/phrases.
Writing: Students will be doing
informative/explanatory writing on
various topics to improve
organization, ideas, capitalization, and
punctuation in their writing.
Math:. We will be learning about
measuring. We will compare and order
objects by length, identify length
units, and the relationship and
properties of addition and
subtraction fact families.
Science: We are completing our study
of magnets. Next, we will study the
materials that make up the natural
features of the Earth’s surface.
Social Studies: We will be
completing our unit on culture which
includes families, traditions, customs.
come where
only great
work good
know our
year very
give most
Classroom
Connections
Things you can do at
home to help your child
• Read every night. Have
your child write the
problem in the story
and how the problem
was solved.
• Discuss time with your
child using clue words
that tell when it is
past or present time.
• Make a timeline about
someone in your family.
This helps your child
understand sequence
of events.
• Count and write
numbers to 120.
• Give your child a
collection of objects to
find out which ones will
react to the magnet.