💡ANNOUNCEMENTS
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
- Early dismissal at 12:30 (Teacher In-Service)Friday, September 20th -
- September 25th - Kingdom Meeting (wear Kingdom colors)
- Friday, September 27th - Early dismissal at 12:30
- September 30th - October 8th - No school (FALL BREAK)
- Monday-Tuesday, October 7th-8th - Parent Teacher Conferences
- Water bottle with name
- Healthy and dry snacks in front pocket
- Take Home folder (please make sure scholars empty it at home)
📕 LITERATURE / GRAMMAR: We continue our series on The House at Pooh's Corner. We read the chapter about Tigger not climbing trees, another about Pooh's invented game, and another about Christopher Robin's notice.We are starting our Owl at Home reading next week. Please bring them to the class if you haven't done it yet!
📕 SAYINGS:
- Practice makes perfect.
- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
- Fish out of water
📕 POETRY: The students practice reciting and memorizing these every week. They will do a poetry recitation in front of the class on the last week of the quarter.
Flint
by Christina Rossetti
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world's desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
Work (Work While You Work)
by Anonymous
Work while you work,
Play while you play,
This is the way
To be happy each day.
All that you do,
Do with your might,
Things done by half
Are never done right.
Hearts Are Like Doors
by Anonymous
Hearts, like doors, will open with ease,
To very, very little keys,
And don't forget that two of these
Are "Thank you, sir" and "If you please!"
Don’t Worry if Your Job is Small (Mighty Oak)
by Anonymous
Don't worry if your job is small,
And your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
Hope
by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.
📕 READING: Thank you to our first parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12:30-1:00. Check your teacher's page on top for the reading volunteer signup.
Sight Word Bookmarks will be on a ring in your child's reading bag or in a binder sleeve. We will be testing for sight word knowledge once a week. During this time, we will be moving students to the next sight word list if they have mastered the previous one. (Please do not mark off sight words at home- we will do this in class).
📕 SPALDING: We introduced the rest of the 69 phonograms this week. Continue practicing at home the phonograms they haven't mastered yet. Check out the Spalding resources on this website to review letter formations, spelling/Spalding rules and phonogram list.
We practiced jobs of silent final e:
Job 1: Silent final e jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its name.
Job 2: English words don't end in u or v.
Job 3: c and g will say their second sound.
Job 4: Every syllable needs a vowel.
Job 5: No job (silent final e does not do anything, it just has to be there).
rule 4: Vowels say their name at the end of a syllable
rule 17: Double f, l, s after a single vowel that says its short sound
rule 18: "ay" is used to say a at the end of a base word
rule 19: i and o will say their name if followed by two consonants
📕 SCIENCE: Students learned about safety rules to practice around electrical devices and electricity. This week we started our Habitats unit. Students will create a portfolio with all the habitats we will learn.