Newsletter 10/8/18

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                                10/08/18

Goals for the week:

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

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 continue to identify genres and to read different types of books.

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

To identify fiction, non- fiction and poetry as genres we will be reading this year.

To discuss ways we can be kind to our friends.

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.    

To review the 7 Continents, to learn the Oceans.

To use a compass rose to read a map.      

To learn how to be a Geologist.   

Homework :

Monday night: Complete an activity from your READO board!

Tuesday night: Practice math facts! +0, +1,  +2, +3.

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!