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The Best Gazette-May |
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Week 1: Pets & Mother's Day
Week 2: Open a Book
Week 3: Summer/Ocean
Week 4: Summer/Ocean & Father's Day
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Some of the skills we are working on include the following... |
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Your child will meet with me in small groups at least once weekly. On this day, your child will bring home a literacy bag. Please listen to your child read the book (if applicable), sign the reading log, and return the bag the following day. Your help and support will aid tremendously in your child's reading success. Happy reading!
*CAP(Concepts About Print) Skills: recognizing front of book, understanding print carries the meaning, knowing the difference between letters/words/spaces, understanding left to right progression, return sweep(knowing where to continue reading when getting to the end of the line)
*Recognizing/Reading the names of all the friends in our class
*Recognizing "chunks" in words
*Sight Words: I, a, the, is, in, am, at, here, and, to, like, see, my, on, up, look, this, go, we, me, come, it
More Words to Learn: said, do, you, mother, father, brother, sister, baby, can,
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*Recognizing all 26 letters (capital and lowercase)
*Sound recognition
*Printing all letters correctly (no reversals)
*Sequencing
*Main idea
*Rhyming
*Isolating beginning, middle, and ending sounds
*Using sounds to write words and sentences
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*Patterns (ABAB, AABB, ABC)
*Color recognition (We're also learning to spell our color words!)
*Counting objects to 20+
*Writing numerals 1-10
*Recognizing numerals 1-20
*Interpreting and using graphs
*Comparing objects by weight, length, and capacity
*Rote counting to 100
*Solving story problems using manipulatives
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Plants & Spring!
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Our Writing to Read lab is an excellent program based on the basic sounds found in the English language. The children move through the cycles at their own pace. Please help your child learn to read and spell each word. Together, create new words by changing the first letter of each cycle word.
Cycle 1: cat, dog, fish
Cycle 2: pig, sun, bed
Cycle 3: rabbit, leg, three
Cycle 4: man, snake, vase
Cycle 5: jump, hand, wagon
Cycle 6: yard, moon, kite
Cycle 7: zipper, straw, smoke
Cycle 8: turtle, chair, house
Cycle 9: oil, horse, wheel
Cycle 10: uniform, book, butter |
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Congratulations, Pirate Pals! |
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I am so very proud of each of the friends who were honored as "Pirate Pals" this year. Way to go!
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Happy Birthday to You! |
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April: Trent (3rd) & Seth (27th)
May: Marissa (29th)
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