Important Dates
January
11 – Ide Movie Night at PV
21 - No School
-
Martin Luther King's Birthday
22 – Report Cards Go Home
30 – Early Dismissal – 12:00
Author of the Month
Jan Brett is our author for the month of
January. We read a couple of her books
this week. She gives many picture clues
in her books that help children to predict what might happen next.
Computers
We explored Jan Brett's website as a group in class and will do so
individually during computer time next week.
We worked on the game called Mouse Concentration which can be
found under Computer Games.
You
may also access this website at home. It
has many different activities for children to do. Her website is:
Please remember to
return your child's green reading anthology if you haven't done so
already. Thanks.
Reading
We will be reading The
Sleeping Pig and What Is a Desert?
Comprehension Strategies
The children will be learning about story
structure and summarizing a story. We
will also talk about how to read a social studies article.
Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words will be words that
name fruits and vegetables and the following words: began, celebrate, coyote,
cricket, howl, rabbit, tail, and watermelon.
Phonics Skills
We will be working on long o (CV-CVCe),
long u (CVCe), final clusters (-ft,
-lk,
-nt), long i (CVCe)(review), and
segmenting phonemes.
Grammar Skills
We will be identifying naming words for
people and animals.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words are cod, lot, snap, bone, nose, home, globe,
live, give, tadpole
Abby will be our student of
the week from January 14-18.
Thank you for all the gifts and cards you
sent to me for the holidays. I had
a nice break, but it felt good to get back to school and see the children again. I
hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday also.
