Week 19 - Jan. 21 - Jan. 24, 2020

Thanks also to all parents that are rocking the reading at home!  Check your child’s reading log.  Does he/she have at least 238 reading steps?  Many of the students are right on target or above the target for SCHOOL / HOME reading steps.  Way to go!  Keep reading at home- it can only result in more reading growth for your child :)!  If your child has less than 238, please continue reading for 30 minutes together and logging in 2 Home steps and consider reading an extra 15 minutes each day (1 extra Home step) until he/ she is back on track. 

This week we will:

• Begin learning about fish (don’t forget what you know about mammals. birds, and amphibians!)
• Practice reading Power Words at FLASH SPEED  (and  why  on)
• Find Power Words in messages that we write or books we read together
• Learn about the short vowel /a/ as in alligator and name and read words that have

–at –am –an –ag –ad –ap (rat, ram, ran, rag, mad, map are some examples)

• Use beginning sounds to decode and read new words
• blend sounds to read words
• use letters and sounds to write sentences
• identify numbers to 100
• identify the number that comes before or after a given number
• review equal parts of a shape and a set (half)
• count to 100 by 1s and by 10s

Homework for the week:

• read for 30 minutes each night and log in 2 HOME steps in your reading log
• read an extra 15 minutes if you need to catch up on Home steps
• practice old (especially the wh, w, th, and h words) and new Power Words- and  on  why

Important dates to remember:

• Jan. 24 – Snow Ball dance @ 6:00

• Jan. 30 and 31 - Teacher Work Days / No school for students