Week of January 13th-17th

Upcoming Events:
1/16- 3rd Marking Period begins
1/17- Spartan Dress Down Day- $1 donation
1/20- Teacher In-Service day
1/24- Report cards sent home
1/13-1/17- Reading DIBELS testing- Middle of Year Testing

Special Schedule:

1/13- Day 4- Gym

1/14- Day 5- Music

1/15- Day 6- Art

1/16- Day 7- Computers

1/17- Day 8- Gym

Reminders:

• Ice cream day in the cafeteria for Kindergarten has been changed to Wednesday’s starting January 15th.
• Please continue to practice sight words. I will be testing this week.
• You can also work on identifying letters and letter sounds, rhyming words and counting from 0 to 100.
• Please continue to read a book each night with your child and document it in their reading log!

What we are learning:

Reading- We are on Unit 3, week 5. The story of the week is Then and Now. The question of the week is: How are things we use today different from things used long ago? The phonics skill is /o/ spelled Oo. The comprehension skill is draw conclusions. The amazing words for this story are: gears, headphones, webcams, handwritten, phonographs, newspapers. The high-frequency words are: they, you, of .

Math- We are on Unit 3: Comparing Numbers. The essential question of the week is: how can numbers from 0 to 10 be ordered and compared? You can help your child by working with them on comparing numbers 0-10 (identifying  the number that is greater or smaller) and writing numbers that are one fewer or one more than a given number. 

In Spring Math, we are still working on finding the missing number up to 10. You can help by working with your child on identifying and writing numbers up to 10, and counting forward and backward up to 10.

Writing- We are on Unit 4 of writing. We are still working on writing lowercase letters, as well as writing sentences and whole words. We are practicing beginning sentences with a capital letter, ending with a period, and leaving spaces between words.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at ksomers@northschuylkill.net , or by phone (570) 874-3661 ext. 3245