Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, January 24, 2014

Dates:

   February 5^th  - Early Dismissal

   February 14^th – Valentine’s Day Party

   February 17^th – Snow Make Up Day!  We have School!

   February 19^th - Early Dismissal

Daily 5:

We have spent the last couple of weeks working very hard on our reading skills.  We have reviewed how we look for clues on the page when we come to an unknown word.  These clues could be pictures or having it make sense in the sentence.  Then we started working on “chunking” the word.  This is when you find parts of the word that you know.  This could be finding a word wall word in the sentence.  You figure out that part then try to figure out the rest of the word.  Please practice these skills at home.

Math:

We finished up our work on 2D and 3D shapes and fractions.  It was a lot of fun to work on whole, half, and fourths.  Now we are moving on to the beginning stages of addition.  We will be spending a lot of time go over what different numbers make a certain number.  Then we will talk about 1 more and 2 more to start us off.  Our goal is for all students to be fluent in adding and subtracting to 5.  So any practice at home is welcome!

Health:

In health we have spent the past 2 weeks working on road signs, wearing seat belts, bicycle safety, stranger danger, and community helpers.  This has been a lot of fun as we have learned a lot about all of these topics.  We are really enjoying all the nonfiction books that go a long with the topics.  Also all the practice activities we are doing help us too.

Helpful Hints:

     *Have your child read their take home book to 2 different people and ask them questions about the story.

     *Begin practicing some basic addition like 3 plus 1 etc. 

     Please keep having your child read the take home books to you at home.  This is very important this time of year as we are really working on our reading skills.