March 15, 2019

 Thank you all so very much for arranging your schedules to meet with us for Parent Teacher Conferences. We are very thrilled to work with such great students who are very blessed to have such supportive parents. We truly appreciate all you do to help your children.  Enjoy Spring Break! 

Book in a Bag - Thank you for helping your child build reading fluency skills and responsibility skills with Book in a Bag. 
 It is your child's responsibility to read it to you and bring their book back to school to exchange every day, even if you check "keep" and decide to keep reading that same book. It keeps them in the habit of being responsible for taking their book home, reading and talking about it, and bringing it back.  We want to increase the amount of time each child reads as well as encourage reading of a variety of writing styles.
  **Please discuss the book with them to help them build comprehension skills. Ask them questions and have them tell you what happened.  Remember to talk about the story, characters, and what the big ideas are in the story.   

We have been working on responsibility and what that means. We have encouraged students to be responsible for their take home folders, books, backpacks, anything they can do on their own. They are very proud of becoming more independent and we are so proud of them!

We do go outside for recess if the temperature feels 10 or above.  Encourage your child to check their bags each day so they remember to have hats, gloves, snow pants and boots. Hopefully we will not need this much longer!

Spelling - Thank you so much for working with your child in learning how to read and spell their spelling words and sight words. It truly makes a difference in how well they do in reading and writing their words.

Spelling words are words with ai or ay. 
      day, may, way, play, stay, spray, rain, grain, pain, paint, sail, mail

 Words to Know: first, food, sometimes, these, ground, under, right, your

Science - We are beginning our new inquiry Sound and Light.

Math - We have been working on Addition Strategies to 20. We also continue working on counting by 2's, 5's and 10's to 100 and beyond as well as understanding place value and one-to-one correspondence.

Social Studies - We are continuing our understanding of working together as a community and our responsibility to our world. We have two globes in our room and have been learning about our world.

We will continue working on reading skills, adding new sight words, learning new reading strategies, and working on math facts. 

Please remember to email both of us if you have any questions or concerns. We plan to check emails daily.