Weekly Overview - Nov. 7-11

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14......NOVEMBER 7-11

Dear Parents: 

     On Thursday report cards will be given out. Please sign and return the (empty) report card envelope. There will be no progress reports until after Thanksgiving. There is no school on Friday as we observe the Veterans’ Day holiday.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Phonograms/Printing:  Two new phonograms will be introduced: oy (says oy at the end of the word) and oi (says oi in the middle of the word). There will not be a phonogram test this week.

boy   toy   enjoy  boil   oil   join  moist

Reading: Word cards will go home for homework tonight. We will begin a new theme, “Animal Adventures”.  Our story is called “The Sleeping Pig”.  We will be working with story structure as an aid to comprehension.

English: We will continue reviewing the skills that we have covered so far: capitalization rules, ending punctuation, and adding s to nouns. A new (and challenging!) skill will be presented this week- adding s to verbs (action or doing words).  There will be a quiz on Thursday. So that you can help your child at home, here are the rules that I will be sharing with the children:

1.  Add "s” to a verb when one person or thing is doing the action.    Ex.   A dog barks.

2.  Do not add "s” when more than one person or thing is doing the action. 

      Ex.  The plants need_  water.

3.  "I" does not follow the rule.   Ex.  I rake the leaves.

Spelling: The final test will be given on Thursday.

1.  boy     2.  toy     3.  coin     4.  soil     5.  boil

6.  sister     7.  brother     8.  went     9.  as     10.  asked

Writing: We will work on a complete narrative for our Hidden Villa trip. This is an incredibly detail-rich topic and should be fairly easy for your child to come up with ideas to use as we work through the entire structure (intro, event, details, event, details, event details, closing).

MATH:   We will be working with a 10 frame to practice facts using 5 and we will learn a challenging, but useful strategy for addition- making a 10s and ones fact. For example, if you have the fact 9+5, you can take 1 from the 5, give it to the 9 and make the 10s fact, 10+4. 10+4=14, so 9+5=14. We will also continue to work on problem solving using pictures and number sentences. Please remember that whenever your child has a story problem to solve, s/he should draw a picture and write a number sentence to go with it. Just a reminder: the ONLY time a t-chart is used for a picture is if it is a comparing problem. These types end with the question “How many more…?” or “How many fewer…?”. T-charts are not used for regular subtraction problems. Our topic test for addition strategies and a problem-solving test will be on Thursday.

***************************SPECIAL NOTES**************************

Thursday- Super Citizen assembly

Nov. 17 - Barnes & Noble Bookfair (5:00-?)- a portion of the proceeds supports our school!

Nov. 18- Social Studies US fair- read more about it in the Millikin newsletter online

Nov.23-25-Happy Thanksgiving!!

Nov. 28- Our Family-to-Family giving opportunity sponsored by our PTA will be starting. Please work together with your child to show a spirit of love and giving as we bring gifts and money to share with a family in need. Thank you for supporting another way of reaching out to those in need.

Save the evening of Monday, December 12, for our annual Holiday Program at 6:30 in the Millikin cafeteria. The children have been working hard! This program will feature only the Kinder and 1^st grade students so it should be fairly short- but great!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce