Weekly News 3

Congratulations!!!!

We won the CAT-ULA Award!
This Golden Cat-ula is given,
To the class that's the best,
In showing responsibility,
For cleaning up their mess.  

This week…

This week we continued to learn about our five senses. Monday we learned about our sense of smell. We played a matching game with smell jars. On Tuesday we read about our sense of hearing. We experimented by closing our eyes and practiced listening to different sounds. Wednesday we studied different textures and described what they felt like using our sense of touch. Thursday we used our favorite sense of taste.  We tasted sour, sweet, bitter, and salty. Ask your child what their favorite taste was. Friday we learned about our sense of sight. We made a pie chart of our eye color.

Little Readers

Today we are starting our take home little books. Inside your child’s B.E.E. folder you will find a large ziploc bag. This bag is where your child should store the little reader books. There will be five books inside each bag. Each Friday we will exchange the books for five new ones. When you finish reading the book please list the book and sign on the signature page. Only list Little Reader books on this signature page. Each title should be listed only one time even if you read it several times. After they have ten signatures, your child gets to choose a treasure from my treasure box. We will do this on Fridays. Please try to read these books several times throughout the week. These books are very simple and only take a few minutes to read through. Reading the books several times helps improve your child's reading fluency.  Each quarter the books will get a little harder.
When reading these stories with your child please practice these reading skills:

*Pointing to each word as they read it*

*Using picture clues to read the words*

*Retelling the story*

Homework

Thank you for doing the Fast Start homework poem and activities with your child. Please remember that you have a whole week to finish the homework.  You should only spend 5 to 7 minutes a day working on the activities. A new poem will be in the B.E.E. folder each Wednesday.

F.R.E.D Calendar 

Two Springs New At-Home Reading Program 

Please try to read books daily with your child and record the time on the F.R.E.D calendar. Our goal is 200 minutes per month. You can count your Little Reader time on this chart. Let's try to get 100% class participate in this program. There will be a graph in the hallway showing the number of minutes each class has read. Your child will get a prize for meeting their monthly goal and one student from each class will be drawn monthly to receive a special award. There will also be a special celebration at the end of the year for students meeting their goal every month from September through April! 

Thanks for another great week! We have a great class. 

Donation Tree

Donation Tree

Pick an apple from the tree,

Help our class and you will see,

How much fun learning can be,

Thank you for your generosity. 

Our apple list: 

jelly beans

clorox wipes

bingo daubers

fuse beads

velcro dots

fabric puff paint

used or new personal CD player 

Weekly News 2

This Week

This week we did different activities that used our names. Some of our activities included graphing the letters we use to write our name, graphing the number of letters in our name and making rainbow names with torn paper. In math we started our sorting unit. We practiced sorting objects by color, size, and their shape.

Homework

We will be starting our Fast Start homework next week. The poems and activities will come home each Wednesday. Please remember that you have a whole week to finish the homework.  You should only spend 5 to 7 minutes a day working on the activities. You do not need to return any of the papers. Thank you! 

Reminders
 Please have your child keep toys from home out of the book bags.  We will start show and share in September so they will have an opportunity to share then.

Book Orders
 Each month I will send home a Scholastic book order. Scholastic has a great variety of books at a very reasonable price.  If you would like to order you may do it online. Our class code is GLGCN. 

Class Directory 

I will be sending home the class directory next week. If you would like your child to be included on it please fill out the form (class directory). Thank you!