Important Dates:
Thank you for joining us during conferences. We enjoyed sitting down and sharing with you how your child is doing. We are grateful for your partnership as we move forward in our learning.
***NEW HOMEWORK NEXT WEEK ***
Reading Bags: We will begin sending 3 books in their reading bags next week. Allow them to read using their knowledge of sounding out and recognizing phonograms. Remind them to follow the words with a finger and step in if they are confused. If you struggle with this, contact your child's teachers for guidance. Remember, it is about practice. For some, this is 5 min, and we build to more time as they gain confidence. You take turns reading a page to demonstrate how to sound out words. The goal is to help them become independent readers, which can take time. Please be patient, as it is a fluid process.
https://safeshare.tv/x/fEb4UYOtd3s (Flashcard review- move the cards from back to front so you see the back of the phonogram first and can help if needed. This will also ensure there is only one card facing your child at a time)
https://safeshare.tv/x/K6WAMMv3qeo (Written phonograms - you say the phonogram sound only, they will repeat the sound and write the phonogram. This is an integral part of learning Spalding, please do not just copy letters or use the letter names during this practice)
Spalding:
This week was short, but we continued our journey with phonogram sounds. This week, we reviewed phonograms 1-34. Please encourage your child to notice the phonograms we have learned in the books you are reading and in the world around them. We will begin spelling words next week, learning to read independently, and recognizing Sight words. This is the beginning of a very exciting time of the year!
Literature:
We enjoyed beginning our first chapter book this week. We have read 1 Chapter in the book Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. By reading a chapter book this quarter, we are taking things slow and practicing hearing good language in a story that is read over a longer period. We hope they will learn to retain what we read previously and build their ability to remember and recall events in a story. She is a silly and helpful lady. Ask your scholar what they remember about her.
Reading about Johnny Appleseed this week, we also explored our first Tall Tale. We discussed what it means to exaggerate and practiced identifying what was exaggerated in the story. In Grammar, our full-day students have begun to learn about describing words-adjectives, such as the blue house, hairy dog, large house, etc. We used sentences from our stories to talk about what words were nouns and what words described them.
Math:
We continued our studies of shapes by using them to make patterns. The scholars used many attributes like color, shape, size, and shape while making patterns. It was good practice repeating the shapes' names while saying the patterns. The students also made their own pattern and had partners fill in what comes next or is missing. We also spent a day discussing positional words such as in-front-of, behind, above, below, next-to, etc., to practice showing or telling where something is located. Using these phrases at home is a great way to practice math and language skills.
Science:
We began a new unit this week, learning about plants and animals. We used our five senses to explore a seashell and also used our language of science, asking: What do you notice? What do you wonder?, and What does this remind you of? as we looked at images of various animals and a seashell. We also read a book about living and nonliving to help us understand the difference. We learned all living things need energy and air, will grow and change, and reproduce or replicate themselves. We took a nature walk to see what living and non-living things we could find around our school.
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