Week
of January 14th-18th
Our Reading story for
the week is “Then and Now”.
Our question of the week is: How are things
we use today different from things used long ago? The Amazing Words for
this story are: gears, headphones,
webcams, handwritten, phonographs, newspapers. The high frequency words
are: they, you, of. The text based
comprehension skill is drawing
conclusions. We will listen for /o/
spelled Oo. We will focus on the correct formation of Oo. Please practice reading the “Little
Rob” decodable story. *Each decodable story can be recorded for the
monthly Reading Logs. J
In Math, we are
working on comparing numbers. We will continue to use the vocabulary words: compare, greater, less, fewer, more.
Please be sure to continue working on identifying and writing the numbers 0-20.
In Science we will
learn about the Earth and Sky and answer the question: What are the Earth and sky like?
This Thursday, January 17th, our
class will be taking the middle of the year Reading Dibels assessment.
Students will be timed one minute for each part of the assessment. They will be
asked to name letters quickly, say the first sound of a given word, read or
sound out nonsense words and segment words into their sounds. Today I sent home
a packet for you to help your child prepare for this week’s test. Once I have
the Reading scores I will send home both Reading and Math middle of the year
scores.
Once again our school
is participating in Boosterthon! This is a fun fundraising effort to benefit
the PTO and our school! Please be sure to sign your child up if you have not
done so yet. Simply go to boosterthon.com and follow the prompts. Prior to the
actual fun run there will be daily “huddles” where students will learn about
character traits and be given their prizes for getting donations. Please keep
in mind this fundraiser gives back to our school and students!
Upcoming
important dates:
·
1/17-Reading
DIBELS for Kindergarten, 1/17-Start of 3rd MP
·
1/18-Spartan
Dress Down $1.00
·
1/24-Boosterthon
Fun Run
·
1/25-Report
Cards Home
Monday is Day 4-Music, Tuesday is Day 5-Computers, Wednesday is
Day 6-Art, Thursday is Day 7-Guidance, Friday is Day 8-Gym.
If you ever need to
contact me, please call the school at 570-874-3661 ext. 3243 or email at scapone@northschuylkill.net.