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Please have your child wear tennis shoes daily.  On your child's PE day and every Friday for the alternating schedule of PE your child must wear tennis shoes.  Thank you!* 

Reminder: School starts at 7:25am, when the bell rings.  If your child eats breakfast at school, please give him/her enough time to eat before the bell rings at 7:25am.   

Family Time - Leader in Me-Learning to Lead Self

This week we will start working on Habit #2 Begin with the End in Mind.  Our class will talk about the value of thinking ahead.   We will learn that everything we do happens twice: first, in our mind and then we physically create it. Play the Mystery Drawing Game: one person describes an object to everyone and sees who draws it best! Discuss how important it is to have a picture in your mind before beginning something.  

Fundations (Phonics) - Unit 4 Bonus Letters (ff, ll, and ss, along with the glued sound -all)

This week we will begin an introduction of bonus letters.  The rule is at the end of a one-syllable word, if the word has one vowel that is short and immediately followed by an f, l, or s at the end, then we double that consonant.  Such as hill, puff, and miss.  We will also work with the glued sound of -all in ball, call, and tall.  

Phonemic Awareness -  Week 9

Rhyming words, beginning sounds, ending sounds.  

Practice questions

-"What number rhymes with late?"  Eight

-"What SOUND does the word fell start with?"  /f/

-"Say hat.  (fell).  Say hat but don't say /h/."  at

-"Say bake. (bake).  Say bake but change the /b/ to a /t/."  take

-"What SOUND do you hear at the end of land?"  /d/

-"Say fine. (fine).  Say fine but don't say /f/."  ine

-"Say took.  (took).  Say took but change the /t/ to a /l/."  look

Reading - Module 2:  Unit 1 Sun, Moon, and Stars

In Unit 1, students launch their learning about the sun, moon, and stars by focusing on literary texts about these celestial objects. In the first part of the unit, students explore the unit guiding question—“Why do authors write about the sun, moon, and stars?”—by participating in a cycle of inquiry through observations and literature. The unit begins with a lesson focused on noticing and wondering about the sun and moon with close viewing of both photographs and time-lapse videos. Students then generate questions about these celestial objects and begin reading literature that centers on these objects.

Math -  Module 2 Topic A

This topic also includes subtraction by using the familiar unit of five. Students subtract 5 by taking away 5 fingers all at once. With 5 as a point of reference, they take away 4 and 6 fingers all at once too. Taking away a part all at once is foundational to the Level 3 subtraction strategy known as take from ten that is introduced in module 3.

Thank you for your partnership between home and school!  We look forward to working with you this school year!