I guess we are finally getting the six weeks more of winter that Punxatawny Phil predicted on February 2. First graders always see the best in everything--they are so excited about this snow. They want to "eat all of it" and are begging to go outside for break.
Today I sent home your child's SEP appointment time home. It is on bright yellow paper. Please sign that and return it as soon as possible. If you can't make your scheduled time please e-mail me and we can arrange another time to meet or you can write a day and time that will work for you on the bottom of the sheet, but I will most likely e-mail you back to arrange it. I look forward to meeting with you all next week. School will dismiss at 2:30 everyday next week including Wednesday (I know it's confusing for me too).
Our 100-book challenge is in full swing. Nash has already read 25 books towards his 100 book goal. As I stated in the note, this is optional, but should be easy to accomplish if you are reading every night with your child like I hope you are anyway. Most nights if you just read one book your child can reach that goal by May 15. As you read with you child every night I highly recommend rereading of the same text. It helps your child's fluency rate tremendously to reread the same text as well as practicing sight words. As you are reading , point out sight words in the text. If your child is struggling to decode a word help them, but don't give them the word too quickly. Give them clues say, "What's the first sound" or chunk up the word, especially if the word has an ending. For example; the word "hunted"--if you have your child cover up the ending /ed/ they can decode /hunt/ and then add the ending ( you can do this with compound words, or words with other ending sounds like /s/, /es/, or /ing/ etc.) If you have any questions about the 100-book challenge please don't hesitate to contact me.
Our school had a spelling bee last week. Our three spellers were Nash, Kaden, and Chace. I was so proud of their effort and bravery. Kaden came back afterwards and said, "that wasn't bad at all!"
This week I am going to start a unit on Penguins. It will culminate with a book that each student will make about Penguins. They will learn so much about penguins along the way and they love it. This unit will integrate, reading, writing, science and art. It should take the rest of February and most of March to complete.
Today I will test on Unit 7 in math. We will start right in on Unit 8 tomorrow. Thank you again for helping your child with their math homework. I would encourage you to have your child read the directions and/or story problems themselves and have them tell you what they need to do.
Today we will also have a dental health presentation presented by our capable school nurse, Mrs. Baumgartner. Your child will come home with a new toothbrush and hopefully a desire for better dental hygiene :)
Happy Reading on this cold snowy day!!
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