Week 5

Here and there:

·       All of our room 19 families are signed up for conferences, thank you all for organizing with other time slots with multiple siblings as well as using sign up genius! I love that you are all using technology to best communicate as we work together to educate your child.  Conferences are just around the corner, I am very excited to see you all!

·       Next week we will introduce and work on 10 more phonograms, I can tell we are starting to get a good grasp on them. The students who are showing great effort reading and verbalizing the phonograms daily with the class are the ones who are getting the most out of our Spalding time.

·       Back to Spalding notebooks for spelling next week. Again, I cannot express how important it is that they come back daily.

·       For the month of September we will be focusing on EFFORT. I am able to observe effort as students show neat and accurate handwriting, make thoughtful connections, and acts in ways that are helpful to our room 19 culture.  When we put all of our energy into our obligations our time together will be extremely valuable. I cannot wait to award another room 19 classmate who continually shows effort.

A look at next week…

Spalding

We will be reviewing phonograms 1-46 as well as introducing 47-57.  Practice makes perfect. We will be inputting spelling words as well as reviewing the rules of a silent and final e.

Reading

We are really understanding and expressing our ideas about author’s purpose. Next week we will continue to make connections and use close reading marks while reading informative narratives.

Math

We will strengthen our skip counting skills as well as introducing skip counting by 2s.  Students will also compare numbers and understand the meaning of even and odd.

Science

Onto the skeletal system as we read and use facts to explain the importance of this system. If anyone has had any broken bones that can been seen in an x-ray please send them in! It would be interesting to show!

History

I admire the interest within this subject, the students love our lessons on American symbols. We will be reading about the White house and the various rooms inside.  We will also read about the Liberty Bell.

Thanks for reading,

Ms. Reger