Sunday Funday!

I spent some much needed relaxation time this weekend...at Costco. Seriously, why do I torture myself by trying to go on the weekend?! The house needed a good cleaning after all the late evenings at work. As my 7 Habits brain tells me,

FYI-Coupon book orders are due tomorrow.

Open house is Tuesday from 5:30-6:30.  Just a reminder this is an adult only event.  I hope to see you there!

We are lucky enough to have a foster grandma be apart of our class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Her name is Grandma Kay and she is absolutely wonderful.  She is as sweet as they come!

We only have a few more centers to learn this week, like stamps and the 3 grant-funded Osmo systems. We'll be set after those two!  The kiddos will learn how to read and use the center rotations chart and will rotate to their next centers once they have completed the previous centers (after all of the centers have been taught).  This allows the kiddos to work at their own pace and be able to fully complete a center before having to switch. It also helps with students not getting bored and acting up! We are lucky enough to get 2 weeks of practice before we start our reading groups (where I am out of commission to the general class to better serve the 5-6 kiddos during their 20 minute reading groups).

We will be wrapping up unit 1 of our reading comprehension unit and begin unit 2.  Unit 2 is how readers use their schema (what they already know).  The class will use their schema to read fiction, use their schema to understand character's feelings, use their schema to understand character's actions, and they will use their schema to read nonfiction.

Our high-frequency words for the week are: see, go, I.  Please help your kiddo practice spelling and reading our weekly high-frequency words at home.  You can find the previous taught high-frequency words on the right side of the blog.

We will continue with handwriting and letter sounds.  This week we will focus on the following letters/sounds:  o, d, n, g, w.

In writing, the students will be completing an opinion and informational writing sample.  We will also begin learning about choosing a piece to publish and revising by adding more details.

We will continue to work on addition and the commutative property in math.  We will also begin working on ways to make 6-10 (0+6, 1+5, etc.).  We have some fun games planned to help teach these skills!

Wishing you well,

Mrs. Dimock