Week 18

I hope your holiday was relaxing and full of fun!  

 goes out to several of our kiddos!  

Camilla, Miguelangle, Arron, and Hazel all passed off another level in Raz Kids! 

They received 500 extra stars, a prize from the Treasure Box, and got to clip-up on the Responsibility Chart.

RAZ KID REMINDER… your child should now be on or above level A to be on track for 1^st grade.  All children should be ready to begin level D when they enter 1^st grade.  That means they will have completed the following levels: aa, A, B, and C.

ALL children should be working on Raz Kids at least 3 days each week.  Please, please make it a priority.

We have finished our math units on measuring: length, weight, & capacity.  The assessment is an oral one that each student completes one-on-one with me.  I am almost finished with them and will post their grade on Aspire for you to view.

We are now working on comparing numbers within 10 and learning the math vocabulary: more than, fewer/less than, equal.  One of the activities we did was to make our name with linking cubes and compare them to each other to see if we had more or less letters than our friends.

On Monday your child will be bringing home their Language Arts Unit 3 Assessment.  Please review it with your child and celebrate!  Then review and practice any that they missed.

The next page of orange sight-words will also be in their folder.  Cut them apart and add them to their baggie.  These words can be kind of tricky and may require some extra practice to learn. 

There is NO homework bookmark in the folder this coming week.  Your child will be working on their new spelling sort and practicing for the upcoming DIBELS Assessment.  These 2 assignments are explained below -

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We will resume Words Their Way Spelling Sorts.  Several of the children have advanced into new groups!  Make sure you look closely at the sort your child brings home this week.  If your child was in Letter Sorts and moving up to Short Vowels they will now be writing consonant, vowel, consonant words instead of just beginning sounds. 

       Our DIBELS Assessment will begin on Tuesday the16th.  Part of the homework is a practice page to help prepare them for this assessment.  Please read it carefully and notify me if you have any questions.  There are 4 parts to the timed test:

·         Letter names

·         Identifying beginning sounds

·         Segmenting cvc words

·         Reading nonsense words

On Thursday we started our expository writing unit on EAGLES.  This is a huge project!  Throughout the next 4 weeks we will be learning about eagles then each student will create an 8 page book, complete with original art work.  This book will then be submitted to the LOVE YOUR LIBRARY CONTEST that our library is hosting.

Have a fabulous week!

Mrs. Scalise