Newsletter 10/30

 

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                             10/30/17

Goals for the week:

To review all short vowel sounds.

To continue to work with addition and subtraction.

To use the count on, count back, take away strategies for subtraction.

To use the number bond strategy for addition and subtraction.

To compare and contrast characters across stories.

To identify character traits on the outside and on the inside.

To continue to read about Pumpkins.

To read nonfiction and fiction stories about Bats.

To identify fact and opinions about pumpkins.

To identify fiction and nonfiction stories.

To continue to identify and write facts and opinions.

To identify beginning, middle, and end of a story.

To identify cause and effect in a story.

To identify sequence in a story.

To retell a story using all the story elements.

To identify story elements.(character, setting, plot, main idea)

To continue to practice reading and writing words that end in glide sounds ng, nk.

To identify the sounds of the diagraphs wh, ch, sh, th

Word study words this week: Long, ring, pink, bank, sang, sing and the red word What, and inch, whip, are, put, chill, whiff,

Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in, big, is, did, if, it, his, pack, said, sick, tack, back, kid, cab, of sack, pack, its, him, quit, six, fix, wax, Off, will, miss, fizz, pass, jazz, 

Red words to know: to, the, have, said, of, you, what, are, put

To label and identify rocks of different.

Homework :

Monday night: Complete an activity from your READO game board.

Tuesday night: count and sort your candy

Wednesday night: Fluency folder

Thursday : study word study words up to unit 11

Newsletter 10/23

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                           10/23/17

Goals for the week:

To learn more about Pebbles, Sand and Silt.

To review all short vowel sounds.

To continue to work with addition and subtractions facts.

To use the count up, count back, number bond strategies to subtract.

To solve addition and subtraction stories.

Word study words you should know: at, am, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, the, an , man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in, is,  big, have, did, if, it, his, pack, said, sick, tack, back, kid, cab, of, sack, its him, quit, six, fix, wax, on, got, not, was, box, job, Off, will, miss, you, fizz, pass, jazz, Hill, fill, quill, fizz

Word Study words this week: Unit 10:  Long, ring, pink, what, bank, sang.

To continue to compare and contrast non-fiction stories on the same topic. 

We will continue to learn about spiders and write about spiders

To read Stories about pumpkins.

To identify the difference between a fiction and non-fiction story.

To compare and contrast characters in a story.

To study characters in a fiction story and identify character traits.

To identify story elements while reading and retelling stories.

To identify beginning, middle, and end of a story.

To identify facts and opinions.

To write about pumpkins using adjectives.

To write about pumpkins, giving facts in sequential order.

To learn about the growth of a pumpkin and to put the stages of growth into order using transitions.

To learn how to be an upstander and stand up against bullying.

To watch Spookley the Pumpkin.

 

Homework :

Monday night: Wear green for kindness week and Please choose an activity on your READO board.

Tuesday:  Study math facts, review +0, +1,+2,   -0,-1,-2.  And practice +3

Wednesday : Wear Orange, Reading Fluency Folder

Thursday :  Study word study words using spelling menu

This week is kindness week!

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newsletter 10/16/17

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                                  10/16/17

Goals for the week:

To review all short vowel sounds.

To continue to compare and combine numbers.

To use number bonds and the counting on strategies to add.

To understand there are different ways to make the same number.

To make addition stories.

To solve a problem where the total number and one part are known.

To use problem solving steps to solve addition problems.

To learn strategies to subtract.

To count back from the higher number, to count up from the lower number to subtract.

To use number bonds for subtraction.

To review sounds and write magic c letters.

To listen to The Itsy Bitsy Spider and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

To read non-fiction texts about spiders.

To know that l,s,f. and z are doubled at the end of a short vowel one syllable word.

New word study words this week: unit 9  off, will, miss, you, fizz, pass

Red words to know:  to, the, have, said, of

Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as , has, can, the, an, man, sad, had, van, rag, bad, to, in, big, is, have, did, I, it his, pack, said, sick, and tack, back, kid, cab, of, sack, and pack, its, him, quit, six, fix, wax, yam, on, got, not, was, box, job,

To brainstorm describing words for spiders.

To learn more about spiders by reading non-fiction stories about spiders.

To write about our opinion on spiders and to give reasons to support our opinion.

To continue to identify the difference between fact and opinions.

To identify the elements of a narrative/fiction story.  Characters, setting, problem, solution.

To identify the features of a non-fiction text.

To read about river rocks. 

 

 

Homework :

Monday night: Complete a square on the READO

Tuesday night: practice Math facts all 2 (+ and -) review 0-1 if needed,

Wednesday night: fluency folder

Thursday : study word study words using your spelling menu

 

 

 

 

10/10/17

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                                10/09/17

Goals for the week:

To write more than one fact In sequential order on the same topic.

To learn about Christopher Columbus.

To identify the difference between fact and opinion.

To write a fact and an opinion.

To review part and whole relationships for different numbers.

To use number bonds to show part/ whole relationships.

To count on to add, to use number bonds to add, to write and solve addition sentences.

To apply our adding strategies to addition story problems.

To identify equation and sum.

To become familiar with different combinations of the same number.

To identify nouns as person, place and thing.

To identify complete and incomplete sentences.

To know a sentence has a noun and a verb.

To use upper and lower case letters in our sentences as well as punctuation.

To self edit our work.

To read and write words from unit 1-7 in the word study units.

To Compare and Contrast characters in a story.

To discuss ways we can be kind to our friends.

To use character traits to identify the main character in the story

To read words with the short vowel o.

To identify the seven continents and find them on the globe.

New word study words this Week: on, got, not, was, box, job, hot, cot, cob,

Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, the, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in, big, is, have, did, if, it, his pack, said, sick, tack, its, him, quit, quack, six, fix, wax, quick

To continue to observe and study the life cycles of insects.              

 

Homework :

Monday night: Complete an activity from your READO board!

Tuesday night: Practice math facts!   +2.

Wednesday night: Fluency Folder:  read another story and practice sight words, reading and spelling.

Thursday :  study word study/red  words using the spelling menu

Friday: 

 Request and Reminders:

* Empty folders as much as possible each night.

* When sending lunch money put it in an envelope with a name!