May all of you have a happy Thanksgiving spent with those you love.
Reading
Due to the short week, we will not do a reading lesson next week. The week following the Thanksgiving break we will read A Visit to the Fire Station. This continues our theme of neighborhoods. It is about a group of children that visit the firehouse in order to learn about how firefighters do their jobs.
The comprehension skills we will work on include, topic, main idea, and supporting details.
The comprehension strategy is questioning.
In phonics we will review vowel pairs ai, and ay and compound words.
The vocabulary words are: chief, emergencies, firefighters, dispatch, fire engine, and gear.
Due to the short week, we will not do a reading lesson next week. The week following the Thanksgiving break we will read A Visit to the Fire Station. This continues our theme of neighborhoods. It is about a group of children that visit the firehouse in order to learn about how firefighters do their jobs.
The comprehension skills we will work on include, topic, main idea, and supporting details.
The comprehension strategy is questioning.
In phonics we will review vowel pairs ai, and ay and compound words.
The vocabulary words are: chief, emergencies, firefighters, dispatch, fire engine, and gear.
The week of November 29th we will hold parent/ teacher conferences. All of you have received a note with your scheduled conference on it. Thank you to those of you who have returned your notes in a timely fashion. For those of you who have not returned your note please do so as soon as possible. On the night of the conference please try and arrive a few minutes early so we can begin on time. I will be keeping to the 15 minute limit so I will remain on schedule. If you feel you need more time we will schedule another meeting. i do not want to keep anyone waiting, I know you all have busy schedules.
Music Concert
The children did a wonderful job! I am so happy that the entire class was present. Ms. Wyse prepared them well.
Math
The children have been working hard to learn regrouping to add and subtract. We will continue to work on this skill. We will have a chapter test on Tuesday. They took the November fact tests during the week. Please use the week ends when they do not have additional homework to practice their facts. I still have many "finger counters" even with facts below 10.
Student of the Week
Jeffery was our special student. Jeffery has two brothers and one sister. Some of Jeff favorite things are the color pink, gorillas, anything chocolate, baseball recess and playing video games. Jeff likes to help other people. He hasn't decided what he wants to be when he grow up.
Tuesday is "Funny Feet Day".
