Every child has our district report card in their take home folder. Along with each report card is a progress report that looks a bit like this:
This report shows you more detailed information about what specific skills your child has mastered. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have. Have a great weekend. Downloads are below.
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This week we launched some new literacy centers. Your children are building words and sentences on iPads with an app called Bob’s Books. We are also making words that end with ~at. With other teachers you children are working on their writing skills and building/writing sight words.
Have a great night. Here is our Daily News (mostly written by your children, now!)
After running all of the numbers and data on your children, I have learned some interesting things about our class as a whole. Here are some class averages:
In am also beginning to assess 100 words that I would like all kids to be able to read by the end of the school year. Half of these words are decodable and half kids need to learn by sight, but they are all high frequency words.
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A reminder is in your child’s take home folder reminding you that there is no school for children on Monday. Have a great weekend and be sure to ask your children to tell you about the calculator lesson we did today in math.
This week we were practicing reading around the room. Here is a short video of how this looks:
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Today we practiced reading around the room again. We were able to sustain our reading for two minutes today. In time we will get stronger and stronger, reading to ourselves for up to 30 minutes!
Today we learned a fun new game in the gym called “Sharks and Fish”. Have your child tell you about it at home. 
Yesterday Ms Lexi came in and taught us how to make our own paper! Right now it is still drying and will come home shortly. You can see an example of our paper in the picture to the right.
We have also been practicing reading around the room. We each have our own spots and are able to read books at our level to ourselves for a few minutes without stopping! Here are a few pictures of us reading around the room.
Yesterday we began learning how to read around the room. During this time your children will be reading self selected books at their own level. We have been learning how this time looks, and we have been practicing. Below is a picture of some of us modeling how to stay in our spot, remain quiet, be gentle with our books, and point to our words in our books. We are off to a great start!
This morning we attended a mathemagic performance by Professor Numbers. Professor Numbers used math and magic to create a very exciting show that was fun to watch and educational. We all had a great time. Below are links for this week’s newsletter and our home link. Have a great weekend!
Home link: HomeLink 5.4
Newsletter: NL_2012_01_13
Parents, this is just a quick reminder to make sure your child has a warm hat, mittens or gloves, snow pants, and boots for our two recess play times. Now that the warmer weather has left us, we need to be prepared for the chilly snow and cold wind. Here is a little video of what we looked like on our playground today:
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Tomorrow you will be getting a Genre Recording sheet in your child’s take home folder. Please use this for the month of January to keep track of the types of books you read at home. Feel free to get a head start by downloading it here: genre_record
Tomorrow I will be sending home unit 4 progress reports for math. They will look something like the picture in the upper right corner of this post.
Here is the daily news for our day:
