News for this week...

Phonics/Spelling Words: The “Bossy R” comes back with more vowels!! We will be working with “r-controlled vowels” this week. These words may be hard for your child to spell correctly because many of the digraphs sound the same. Practice as much as you can!!
Spelling Words are:

her, fur, turn, bird, girl, first, quit, when, name, work TEST IS FRIDAY!

High Frequency Words—words your child needs to recognize, read, and use in a sentence. We will go over these words daily.

always, by, Cow’s, join, nice, please, room

Vocabulary: These are words we will learn about through our Storytown Reading program. Remember…your child does not have to read or spell these words. We will be discussing their meaning! Words for this week are:
captured, mercy, struggling, compatible, amiable, relax

Sight Words: NEW TEST DATE—WEDNESDAY! Alyssa’s mom has volunteered to test sight words for me and Wednesday is the day that works for her. PRACTICE sight words every night!

Math: Graphs including: bar graphs, pictographs, Venn Diagrams—your child will create graphs as well as analyze information by reading graphs.

**We will continue reviewing skills such as tally marks, greater than/less than, and place value. If you see your child is having a hard time with a skill, please help them practice at home!**

Writing: Writing is improving, but students need to write more than one sentence. Many children are waiting for me to spell words for them—something I will not do! Your child’s writing is linked directly to their literacy skills…they need to sound out words and write what they hear. I am more concerned with their CONTENT!! I want to see several sentences about the same subject and a picture that matches their writing. Many students are writing about the same things and only using words they know they can spell correctly. I want the class to take chances and attempt to write the stories they have in their head…your children have wonderful imaginations and need to learn to put those ideas on paper! The entire class is working on this…I expect our writing skills to improve exponentially in the next few weeks!!!

Theme: We will be making some fun Christmas decorations during our Social Studies time this week. Can’t wait to see the room all “prettied up!”

Extra Information:
· We have already used all of the glue sticks you sent at the beginning of the year. If you can, PLEASE send glue sticks!!!
· I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!!

· Send Money for Art Project ($3) ASAP!


· Students are improving at working independently! You will see how much work they are getting done in their center work folders that go home every Friday. Please review the work with your child, sign the green sheet, and return folders every Monday. Let me know if you have any questions.

· Upcoming PTO Dates:
Dec 1st—Yearbook Buddy Ad Deadline & Dec. 7th—pics with Santa $5

· The class likes to add seasonal decorations…please send some Christmas decorations as you have in the past for other holidays and we will use them! Thanks!