Important Dates . . .
February 25 -- Spring Pictures
February 26 -- Ozzie's Reading Club Deadline
-- Movie Night
March 1 -- Casmir Pulaski Day -- No School
Language Arts
The students are continuing to work on handwriting and sentences this week. Students are going to learn three key things to remember when writing - you can ask your child what these are. They will continue building on writing grammatically correct sentences that relate to the topic given.
Reading
We will be continuing with lesson 6 of the Elements of Reading Vocabulary program. Your child will be coming home with 7 words that will be studied during the week in class and should be reviewed at home. On the page I will be sending home each Monday there will be suggestions on how you can work with your child & have them get extra practice.
This is the last week of doubled reading incentives! Not only can your child read 20 minutes to go to the reading party, but they can read to earn a ticket to see the Kane County Cougars! Please turn in Ozzie's Reading Club form on or before this Friday.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! Each 20 minute increment read counts for a point up to 20 points – yes, that means an additional reading grade each month for learning to love to read. Your help is greatly appreciated! Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. This orange folder should be turned in every Monday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in at the end of the month to ensure they can attend the lunch reading party. Keep reading!
Spelling
This week we will continue to be divided into 3 different spelling groups. Some will be working on Unit 23 this week and others will be working on a separate list (Lesson 6 – Community Helpers) that will relate to the social studies, because we will be working on building social studies, reading and spelling skills at the same time through this list.
Practice pages will be assigned for the upcoming week's list on Friday to give additional study time. Over the weekend would be a good time to discuss the meaning of the words. Although we work on meaning typically on Fridays and Mondays, help from home is greatly encouraged! They will be receiving them daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given every Friday. Please try to help your child study if you see they are not performing as well as you'd expect on the weekly test. One strategy you can use to help is: Scratch n' Sniff- Use a new sensation to teach the alphabet or spelling words. Write letters with glue on paper, then sprinkle with Jell-O. Makes a super scratch n' Sniff when tracing over the letters.
Social Studies
The children will begin Unit 3, Working Together. This unit introduces the children to work in the community. They will discuss income as it relates to spending and saving. They will differentiate between goods and services and will follow the process of taking a product from farm to factory to consumer. We will be covering Lessons 2 & 3 this week.
Math (Mrs. K's Math class only)
We will continue linking our learning of Social Studies and Math. This week we will continue working on identification of coins and build to value of money skills. The children will be encouraged to use various manipulatives and strategies to achieve understanding of value; whether it be understanding through touch points, unfix cubes, other tangible objects, 100's chart, and various place value charts.
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and fill in both Independent Reading Folder Log & Ozzie's Log
- Ozzie's Log is due Friday
- students should practice reading poem nightly to parents to work on fluency
- study lesson 6 vocabulary words
Spelling - Practice Page nightly & study words with parents nightly
*Please check your child's homework and sign assignment notebook when complete.
**If your child is having difficulties with their homework please send a note and I will help them during free time
