We
had a great week at school as we’ve settled back into our daily
routines!
*Just a couple of
things…
-The January
SeeSaw Book Club flyer was sent in your child’s OTIS this week. If you’d like
to place an order online, please click onto the Scholastic link on the right
side of the blog page. Please place your order by Friday, January
14.
-Please
send in an empty cereal box. Just a regular size box will be
fine!
Please remember to dress your child warmly when
they come to school. We do go outside each day and it is important that they are
dressed appropriately.
Here’s
what we’re working on lately!
READING:
The
children have been very excited to go shopping for their dot books (leveled
texts) and taking their go bags at home! It has been fun for me to see their
enthusiasm as they’ve told me about reading to you at night!
Parents
often ask how they can help their child at home to support their reading. One
of the MOST important things to help a budding reader is to read aloud
to your child each night. Spend a few minutes talking about the story. Asking
them questions about books that YOU read aloud will support their comprehension
and retelling skills. Helping to instill the joy of reading is a tremendous
gift that will stay with your child for a lifetime!
Each
week, we work on specific reading strategies that are then posted
on our Daily 5 Café Menu. These strategies correspond and support early
reading behaviors. Here is a list of the reading strategies that we have posted
so far.
-Study
the cover and think about the story.
-Do a
picture a walk. (Look at all the pictures before you
read).
-Point
to the words as you read.
-Get
your mouth ready (Say the beginning sound of the word.)
-Look
for patterns. (I see the cat. I see the dog. I see the
bird.)
-Check
the picture.
-Remember
target words.
-Move
through the word. (Segment the words in an unknown
word.)
COMPREHENSION:
Gaining meaning from the reading is key to building reading levels. During our
guided reading groups, we not only work on decoding strategies, we are working
on building an understanding of how to “retell” a story. To help you at home, please go to the top of
the blog and you will find a “page” which includes the story element questions
that we ask at school after they have read their leveled text. As your
child reads their dot books at home, use these questions to help support and
build your child’s ability to comprehend and retell the stories they are
reading.
WRITING: We
continue to work on personal narratives. Our writing process includes
thinking of a story, planning, sketching and writing a simple corresponding
sentence. We will be working on writing more than more sentence to support the
story, including more detail in the writing and stretching a story across
several pages. Writing conventions include space between words, proper
capitalization and segmenting and recording letters for most dominant sounds in
words.
MATH:
- · Rote counting 1-40
- · Recognizing and writing numbers 11-20
- · Decomposing “teen” numbers (10 and 3 make 13)
- · Counting forward to 20.
- · Recognizing, describing and comparing 2D and 3D shapes (names, sides, angles, vertices)
SCIENCE: We
begin our science unit on weather this week. (more info to
come)
Have a
great weekend and enjoy the balmy weather!
-Important
Dates:
January 13 – Kindergarten Registration Begins: If you or
anyone you know has a child that will be entering Kindergarten for the 2014-2015
school year, encourage them to go ahead and register.
January 17 – Early Release at 12:30
January 17 – End of 2nd Quarter
January 20 – Martin Luther King Holiday
January 21 – Teacher Workday
February 5 and 6 – Visit from Science Made Fun to JYJ
Kindergarten – “Weather Wizards”
February 6 – Start of JYJ Healthy Choice Marathon
February 14 – Early Release
February 17 – Teacher Workday
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