Sunday, December 12, 2010

Week of December 13th - December 17th


The RTI team and I will be benchmarking Kindergarten students in the areas of Reading and Math. 1st and 2nd grade students will be benchmarked when we return from break. I will also be assisting 2nd grade students during "Holidays Around the World."
Please continue to encourage your child to read over break. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Week of December 6th - December 10th

Kindergarten
I will continue to pull some students one on one to work with the K-Pals intervention. It is a series of learning games that promote letter recognition, rhyming, and beginning sounds.

1st Grade
Students took the Unit 4 Wilson Fundations test on Friday. Graded tests are being sent home on Monday, please review. We will begin Unit 5 on Monday. This unit will focus on two new glued sounds. In addition to -all, students will learn -am and -an. The trick words for this week are -from, -or and -have. The test will be given on Friday.


2nd Grade
Students are participating in reading writing workshop this week. The writing focus will be persuasive writing. Students will listen to a story that models persuasive writing then they will be expected to write a letter persuading their parents to buy them a special gift. They will need to provide three reasons why they deserve the special gift.