Dear Parents:
I can hardly believe that it is already 2011! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday with your loved ones and enjoyed the break with your children. I definitely enjoyed the time with my family and was so blessed to have all three of my children home with us for both Christmas and New Years. Some exciting news in my family is that my son became engaged on Christmas Eve. My future daughter-in-law, Erica, and I began wedding planning immediately!
There is also some exciting news for our class! Please join me in welcoming Mrs. Beth Rauman to our class! As you read in December's letter from Dr. Bianco, Mrs. Rauman is the instructional assistant for our class. She comes with many years of experience in working with children at two local day schools. She graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Economics. I know you are wondering how a Seminole and Gator will handle working together so closely. With absolute joy! We became friends a number of years ago when I had the pleasure of having her daughter in my class and I have the utmost respect for her. We are very lucky to have her join us!
Now, what's up this week in 1-4?
Reading/Language Arts: We are working on words with the syllable -le, the inflections -er and -est, and the inflections -ed and -ing (doubling the final consonant). The comprehension focus is on determining the main idea (what the text is mostly about) and finding details in the text for that big idea. We will also review possessives. The word wall words this week are buy, carry, money, other, paint, paper, and would. The robust vocabulary words this week are agreement, rejoice, predicament, extraordinary, and unnoticed.
Writer's Workshop: We will continue to write personal narratives and will soon be choosing our next piece to "fancy up" for publication.
Math: This week we will focus on place value concepts for tens and ones, investigate place value digit patterns with calculators, and introduce the relation symbols <, >, and =.
Science/SS: Our Solar System study continues.The moon and the planets will be our focus this week. Did any of you get up in the wee hours of the morning of December 21st to observe the lunar eclipse? I caught the end of it. It was so cool! Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera to take pictures so if any of you happened to take pictures, please share them with us!
Volunteers this week:
- Tuesday - Art - Ailsa Hudson (12:00)
- Thursday - Library Check-out - Kristen Danielson and Valerie Pillot (2:05)
- Friday - Math Game - Cynthia Biondi (9:00)
- Friday - Parent Reader - Ailsa Hudson (2:15)
Please be sure to practice reading, spelling, and writing the vocabulary words on the word rings every day. Return the word card rings EVERY Thursday.
Please be sure to have your child work on the reading folder assignment each day and return it completed on Mondays. Rereading helps to build fluency!
Math Night will be January 20 at 7:00 p.m. This will be a great opportunity to get some hands-on experience with our Everyday Math program. Please let the office know if you plan to attend.
There will be no school on Martin Luther King Day - January 17th.
Our next Spirit Day will be Friday, January 28th.
That's all for now!
Have a great week!
Susan
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