💡What We're Learning This Week💡

🔤Phonics: We will be working on suffixes in Fundations (our phonics program). We will be working with short vowel closed syllable and closed syllable exception words. Closed syllable words have a consonant at the end of the word or syllable. Closed syllable exceptions are words that look like they should have a short vowel, but the vowel says its long vowel sound (wild, most, cold, ect.) The suffixes we are working on are: est, er, ing, ed, es, and s.

📖Reading: We will finish our first module in EL reading this week. During this module we will be learning about how students around the world go to school. We will learn about problems communities faced and the solutions they had for students to be able to go to school. We will look at how characters and people respond to the challenges/problems they face. Students are working to compare and contrast our school to others around the world.

🔢Math: We will finish our first Module in Math after fall break. We are working on place value and recognizing how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in a number and the value of each digit. We are also working on strategies for addition and subtraction.

🌍Leader in me🌍

We are beginning to learn about Habit 2 Begin With the End in Mind. Habit 2, "Begin with the End in Mind," means to have a clear vision and plan for the future before you start something. This involves setting personal and learning goals, and creating a personal mission statement that explains the person we want to be. Students learn that when you know what you want to achieve, you can make purposeful decisions and set goals that truly matter.

🔤Fundations🔤

📚EL Reading and Writing✍️

In module 1, students build their literacy and citizenship skills as they engage in a study of schools. Students begin the module by participating in a series of focused read-alouds to explore the module guiding question, “What is school, and why are schools important?”

In Unit 2, students build on this understanding by engaging in close read-alouds. Through these texts, students learn about schools around the world and the challenges some communities face in sending their students to school and how they solve these challenges. To support their understanding of this text, students take notes on and write in response to their reading.

In Unit 3, students revisit sections from our read-alouds as they engage in whole class research to learn about the similarities and differences between their own school and three schools from the text. Students extend their research in small groups by focusing on one school in particular and producing an informational book about it tilted “The Most Important Thing about Schools.”

Throughout the unit, students participate in collaborative conversations with their peers to process and extend their understandings of the similarities and differences between their own school and the school they have researched.

Important Reminders🗣️

The temperatures in our classrooms are hard to regulate, your child may want to bring a jacket or sweatshirt to keep in their cubby. You may want to put their name on the tag in case they misplace it.

Remember to either send your child in tennis shoes or to pack tennis shoes when it is your classes PE day!

Royal: Tuesday Rhye: Monday Coomes: Wednesday

What can you do at home each night to help your child?

Math facts:

- Making 10. ( 7 + __ = 10, 4 +__= 10, “When I say 9 you tell me what number is needed to make 10.” Child says “1.”)
- Facts to 10. (3 +__= 9, 5 + __= 7, “When I say 6 you tell me what number is needed to make 8.” Child says “2.”)
- Doubles Facts: 6 + 6, 8 + 8, 4 + 4, etc.

High Frequency Words/Trick Words/Heart words

There are many names for them, but they are all words that don’t follow our usual rules of phonics!

It is VERY IMPORTANT that students know these words by heart and automatically!!

Here is a link to videos that can help your child learn trick words.

https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic

-Helping your child with these at home will greatly improve your child’s reading skills.

When we read with students we are looking at 3 different things:

Accuracy, Fluency, and Comprehension.

When your child is reading at home, you can work on these things too!

For accuracy, if you notice that your child misreads a word, don’t immediately stop them. Instead, wait until they finish the sentence or the page and read the sentence with the error back to them the same way they read it and see if they can find the error and correct it. Remind your child to finger stretch unknown words and use the sounds we are learning in phonics to help them read the words correctly.

For fluency, if you notice that your child’s reading sounds choppy, ask them to reread what they read to make it smoother. Remind your child that their reading should sound like talking. 80% of what a child reads should be easy for them to help them build their fluency. Rereading familiar books is a great way to build fluency. Students may also bring home fluency passages they can read and time themselves to work to build their number of words they can read in 1 minute. At the beginning of the year, students should be able to read 50-60 words per minute.

For comprehension, ask your child questions about what happened in the stories they read. You can also have them retell the story to see if they can tell you the important details from the story. If there is a part they cannot remember, have them go back and reread that part of the story.

Thank you for all your support!

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