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September  2008                                                                              

WELCOME TO A NEW SCHOOL YEAR!!!

Watch for your children to bring home checked work every day.  These papers will help you see the progress your child is making and help you identify areas of concern. It will also give you a quick view of activities being completed in class. 

REMEMBER, your children have three things to work on every evening for homework:         

            1) Spelling Word Lists

            2) 15 to 20 minutes of reading.  Use readers, leveled readers, weekly paper stories, library books, etc.

            3) Addition and Subtraction math facts.  We test 2 or 3 times a week.  Goal -- 30 correct per minute.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact me at school.

LESSONS BEING LEARNED:

Reading and Language Arts: 

• Stories: Unit 1 and 2-- first reader (10 stories);   All of the children are getting into reading.
• Spelling list #1 thru #10.  Each week we will add one of the previous weeks words to the Friday spelling test and a Religion vocabulary word..  (Remember--the children glue these lists into a special notebook they are bringing home daily to use to study for tests.  We are also writing five sentences in the notebook each week.)
• Phonics work is being done on sentence structure, long vowels,  and short vowels;  
• Grammar lessons are asking the children to write in complete sentences, recognize different kinds of sentences, and using proper punctuation for sentences.  We are also working on writing complete sentences using subjects and predicates and identifying nouns and verbs.                  

Math:  

·        Chapters 1 thru 4 working on numbers 1 to 100, comparing and ordering numbers, addition patterns and facts, number patterns, and tables and  graphs, probability.  Please continue to help you children  and their work. 

·        Review work in Math includes the following:

ü      Adding and subtracting using simple facts and fact families

ü      Counting money (pennies, dimes, nickels);  identifying "greater than", "less than", and "equal to";

ü      Telling time (hour, half hour)

ü      Variety of  Problem Solving pages and Math Journaling

Religion: 

We are using a new Religion series this year.  Your child will be bringing home their activity book every week for you to follow the activities the children are working on in the classroom.  Please help the children complete any assignments and review the questions and answers that accompany every chapter.