newsletter 1/22/18

 Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               1/22/18

Goals for the week:

To review all short vowel sounds

To read and write words with all the short vowels and to continue learning about long vowels.

To identify and use descriptive words.

To retell and summarize a story using story elements.

To identify story structure.

To identify characters, setting, problem and solution in Fiction Stories.

To identify features of Non Fiction texts. 

To know to use tch at the end of some short vowel one syllable words.

To know the exceptions to the rule above.

To use s and es to make a word plural.

 Word study words to know: know 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, on got not , was, box, job, off, will, miss, you, fix, pass, long, ring, pink, what, bank, sang, inch, whip, are, put, whiff, chill, that, thing, with, this, dish, thank, well, men, get, tell, set , let, when, them, then, flag, plan, sled, glad, black, class, fresh, bring, grass, drink, crack, press,  Twin, still, swim, snack, skin, smell, spell, up, truck, sun, but, us, Mr. Mrs. clock, path, napkin, cannot, upset, into, jacket, spring, scrap, splash, string, were, squid, scrub, and, last, hand, best, went, end, left, desk, help, must, do, and, two, many, milk , kept,

Red words to know: to, the, have, said, of, was, you, what, are, put, would, could should, they, your, Mrs. And Mr.

 

Word study words this week:  unit 18 review: such, much, which, rich, catch, pitch, stitch, stretch.

Add: jumps, socks, lifts, chicks, catches, pitches, stretches, glasses.

To continue to use capital letters and punctuation in sentences.

To self edit our writing using our writer’s eye.

To listen and respond to Non Fiction Texts.

To compare and contrast two Non Fiction Texts.

To compare and contrast two fiction texts.

To continue to read stories and poems about snow and snowmen.

To begin reading about penguins.

To identify the main idea and key details in a nonfiction text.

To practice reading with fluency. 

To compare numbers to 20 using place value.

To compare 3 numbers.

To represent numbers to 20 using tens and ones.

To review ways to make 10.

To learn our doubles facts.

To use the make 10 strategy and the doubles plus one strategy to add.

 

 

Homework : 

Monday:  Choose an activity from your READO

Tuesday: practice math facts 

Wednesday: fluency folder

Thursday:  study all word study words for unit 18.