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Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, October 18, 2013

Dates:

     October 23 – Early Out 1:05

     October 24 & 28 – 1:05 Out

     October 24 & 28 Parent Teacher Conferences 3-8

     October 29 – Picture Retakes

     October 31 – Halloween Parade in Gym at 2:30

     November 1 – No School

Daily 5:

We are continuing all of our work in our Daily’s.  The students have been working very hard on their writing in their journals.  Each day they have a sentence to copy and fill in the ending of it with a variety of different words.  Their job is to sound them out the best they can to figure out the spelling of the word.  They are doing a very nice job.  Ask them to write something for you at home to see how much they have improved.  We have been working on final sounds in words.  This can be tough so practicing at home is helpful.

Math:

We have spent the last 2 weeks working on counting to 10, writing numbers to 10, comparing numbers to 5 and 10, and finally ordering numbers to 10.  We have been very busy.  Please work on ordinal numbers to ten, as this is very hard for the students.  Also please continue to practice writing numbers at home as we do occasionally still write them backwards.  J

Writing:

We just finished up our handwriting curriculum.  The last section we have worked on was lower case letters.  These can be tricky but we are taking our time and really working on forming the letters correctly.  Now we will be moving on to writing words in sentences.  We will spend some time next week working on sounding out words we want to write.  Please practice this at home.

Helpful Hints:

     Work on your numbers all the way to 30 by counting and writing.

     Please have your child tell you the last sound in words. 

     Have your child clap out the syllables in words.