Week of January 7^th-11^th            

Our Reading story for the week is “Farfallina and Marcel”. Our question of the week is: What happens when animals change? The Amazing Words for this story are: goose, caterpillar, reflection, gosling, butterfly, cocoon. The high frequency words are: see and look. The text based comprehension skill is plot. We will listen for /f/ spelled Ff. We will focus on the correct formation of Ff. Please practice reading the “For Me” decodable story. *Each decodable story can be recorded for the monthly Reading Logs. J

In Math, we are working on comparing numbers. We will 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 all things winter! We will chart winter as a season and learn about penguins. J

This Thursday, January 10^th, our class will be taking the middle of the year Math Dibels screener assessment. Students will be timed one minute for each part of the assessment. They will be asked to name numbers, out of order, to 100. They will be asked what the next number is after a given number. Last, they will be shown two sets of dots in the form of a domino or dice and asked which quantity is larger and how many dots there are for that group. I have sent home practice pages for you. We have been working on these skills in school too!

Upcoming important dates:

·        1/10-Math Dibels for Kindergarten

·        1/18-Spartan Dress Down $1.00

Monday is Day 9-Music, Tuesday is Day 10-Computers, Wednesday is Day 1-Art, Thursday is Day 2-Guidance, Friday is Day 3-Gym.

If you ever need to contact me, please call the school at 570-874-3661 ext. 3243 or email at scapone@northschuylkill.net.