News in Room 123!

Please make sure all money is labeled with your child’s name and what it is for. Place all money in your child’s take home folder.

**Check your child’s white take home folder EACH NIGHT! You will need to review anything that is on the return to school side and return it to school. Please take out anything on the keep at home side to leave at home. I have noticed that a lot of people are not checking folders because these things keep coming back to school.

**Signed Papers will come home this week. They will be in a manila envelope. You must sign the outside of the envelope and return all papers inside. We have to keep the papers on file at school. Thank you!!

**Grades- You can come to the office this week and request a password for STI. This will allow you to check your child’s grades online at any time. Do not rely on signed papers because they only come home every two weeks!! You will need to come in person and bring your ID. They will not give passwords over the phone.

 Word Wall Words: like  one  the  we

  last week our words were:  a green I see

Each week I will post words that the children will need to be able to read. I will test these words randomly every week or every other week. They will build on each other so once they have been introduced they will be tested on. The first six weeks of words are review words from Kindergarten so they should not be hard. This means that Friday I will probably test on this weeks words and last weeks words.

Language- Nouns

The children will also be using writing tablets to learn how to write correctly on the lines. We will learn how to write sentences correctly using capital letters and periods at the end of telling sentences. I will usually give the children one sentence that they will copy correctly from me and one sentence that they need to edit on their own. Sentences should be correct when they come home because we go over them together. Please reinforce this at home!

Reading- 

We will be reading different genres in reading this year. We will focus on Realistic Fiction until mid October. A Family Times news letter will come home each Friday explaining what we will learn the following week in reading. It was sent home on a pink sheet of paper this past Friday.

Question of the week- Who is in our family?

We will also have Amazing Words each week that go along with our story. The amazing words will be used to increase oral vocabulary.

Amazing Words- adult   depend  gallery   scurry   childhood   portrait   entertain

Math- We are still working on Ch. 1- addition. I will begin lesson 1.6 Tuesday and finish with a test on Ch. 1 Friday. I sent home a workbook last week for you to use for homework to reinforce skills learned in the classroom for the year. There is a page in your child’s take home folder that tells you what page to work on each night. Please make sure you keep up! You will not need to return these pages to me. They are only used for extra reinforcement at home. I do not have any extra workbooks so please do not lose it!