Week 7

Upcoming Events:
September 30th Boosterthon kick-off

What we are learning this week:
Sight words: an, is, look
Letters & sounds: q, x, y, z
Reading Strategy:  We use our "owl eyes" to look at picture clues to figure out unfamiliar words.
Writing:  We will continue using the sentence frame to write about community helpers.  The purpose of the sentence frame is to remind students to begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. 
Math:  We will continue working on numbers 0-10.  This week we will be using a number line to count and find missing numbers.
Social Studies: We will finish our unit on community helpers.

How can you help at home this week?
Review anything missed on the interim or weekly assessment.
Review sight words.  Students love being sight word detectives!  Give them a magnifying glass, a simple book, a notebook, and a pencil.  Have them search for sight words within the book and write them in the notebook.  After they finish their list, have them read their list of words.
Review letters and sounds.  One way we practice in class is by playing a matching game with uppercase and lowercase letters.  An easy way to prepare this at home would be to write an uppercase letter and matching lowercase letter on an index card, cut the card in half, mix up a few at a time, then have your child match the letters together again.  Say the letter name and sound each time they make a match. 
Writing:  Practice writing letters correctly.
Math:  Write the numbers 0-10 on a number line (or you could use a ruler for a number line to 12).  Have your child close their eyes, cover up a number on the number line, then have your child guess the missing number.  If this is too easy, try covering multiple numbers.