Friday, December 9, 2011

Week of December 12th- 16th


Kindergarten
I am very excited about the progress my students are making. They are working very hard on identifying letter names, sounds & popcorn words. They are also putting sounds together to read words. The focus letters for this week are y & x. The popcorn word is -do.

1st Grade
Guided Reading during push-in time has helped improve fluency. Students are using various strategies to figure out unknown words. They have been sounding out words, using pictures, looking for chunks at the end of words and paying attention to magic e. Nice job 1st graders!

1st Grade LLI Intervention Group
Students will continue to read and re-read various books. They will become fluent with reading words containing short vowels. They will quickly recognize high frequency words and will be responsible for correctly writing some of them. They will also write words and sentences by listening for sounds and letters. Note to parents: please encourage your child to write on their own. I am not concerned about proper spelling on their homework. It is important for your child to stretch out the words and write the sounds he/she hears. This is an appropriate stage of writing development. Thank you!

2nd Grade Push-In
I am excited to be in Mrs. Onorato's class this week during Holidays Around The World. We will be teaching the students about Hanukkah & making Menorahs.

2nd Grade Wilson Intervention Group
Students will begin Unit 6 this week. This unit will focus on long e at the end of words. We will continue to focus on multi-syllabic words and various suffixes. The new suffix for this week is -ive. The trick words are - often, -house, -move. The story for this week is called Baby Ruth.

Happy Holidays!!