Good morning! Wow our last week of January!! The children are settling back into routine nicely but we have some sickness going around our class 😔 hopefully everyone stays well.

Friday January 31 will be a school wide pajama day in support of the Special Olympics. Please send in a donation if you can!

Literacy:

We will be starting unit 2 in Fundations. I am sending home the package of homework tonight.

I am also sending home some Trick Word cards. These can be left at home to play games with your child. I have a two page sheet of games to play with the cards and will also be posting a video of me and some of the children playing the games so you can see them being played. I focus the camera on the game and not on the children.

Reading:

Last week we began reading in small groups. Everyone did great! I gave them really easy books to read so we can work on the skills that I am teaching. We learned about using Pointer Puppy and pointer power to point to each word as they read. We do this so our eyes and brain work together. Then we used our eagle eyes to look at the pictures if we didn’t know a word. Finally we used stretchy snake to look at the beginning sound of a word if we didn’t know it.

When you are reading with your child, make sure that they are pointing to each word and reading the word they are touching. Also learning the Trick Words will help them with reading as most of our books contain the words.

I sent the books on Friday and they are due back to school today (Monday). This is the way that I hope to send books each week. Please make sure to take care of the books and keep them in a safe place. Then return them each Monday. If the books are not returned, your child does not get to take another book home.

Numeracy:

We are continuing to work on the numbers to 6-10. This week we will finish up 8, 9, 10 and then move on to part part whole. Part part whole is understanding that 3 (part) and 2 (part) are parts of the number 5 (whole number).

Have a great week!

Kelley