Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin        September 12,2016

  I am happy with how the children are settling into our class routines and the full day of school!  Please speak to your child about the importance of listening.

Goals for the week:

To continue to count accurately and write 1-20.

To add and subtract by 0

To add fluently by 1 using the next door neighbor strategy.

To order numbers one through ten.

To identify one more and one fewer.

To use math vocabulary and symbols to explain greater than and less than.

To learn more about the Constitution on Constitution day.

To read stories about the alphabet and to learn to alphabetize.

To listed to the story of Chrysanthemum and many other Kevin Henkes characters

To compare and contrast characters between stories.

To make connections with text.

To write a sentence with a subject and predicate.

To write a sentence using uppercase letters and punctuation.

To edit our writing  work when finished.

To continue to learn the routines and work for our Daily Five.

To identify rhyming words.

To write with Style.

To continue to practice words with short a. 

To practice reading words with short a and short I word family.

To read and spell unit 1-4 word study words.  (at, am, cat, sat, bat, fat, As, has, can, the, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in, big, have, did, if,)

Homework :  Read every night!

Monday: Complete an activity from your READO board

Tuesday: practice flash cards for all 0’s (plus and minus).

Wednesday: Fluency folder  read a story to your child and have them read it back to you.

Thursday night: read and write word study words unit 1-4 (this is review from K)

 

Over the weekend:   Please decorate your writer’s notebook.  Collect and print pictures and decorations that will make the book special,(pictures that will inspire your child to write! Animals if they like animals, Barbie if they like Barbie, sports if they sports).  I will also be asking you to cover the books with contact paper over the weekend.  You may want to begin working on collecting pictures and purchasing contact paper this weekend.  Send book back to school on Monday.

* Pack a healthy snack each day!!

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