Top Ten for Week of January 25th

Top Ten for Week of January 28^th:

1.    The kids have made amazing growth in reading this past quarter.   Thank you for all your hard work.  We can’t wait to show off our great reading to the kindergarteners tomorrow!

2.    We are starting the prewriting for our Cinderella stories.  The kids will publish their very own book!

3.    We have been setting reading and writing goals this week and the kids are excited to achieve them. 

4.    Next week starts our mini study on presidents.  We will be learning about Lincoln and Washington in the coming weeks.

5.    The kids will be writing about if they were president.  Have a discussion with your child about what a president does.

6.    In reading we have been working on r-controlled words. They are tricky sounds and extra practice with ir, er, and ur would be helpful.

7.    Practice subtraction facts we started double digit subtraction with regrouping.  A great site to practice is www.aaamath.com Check it out!

8.    Our new science unit is Sound and Light.  We will be doing several hands on experiments during this unit.

9.    Another important skill we will be focusing on in reading is inference.  Have your child make inferences with the books they read at home.  Inference: take what you know and what clues the book gives and decide what is going to happen next.

10. We have officially started our new skills for the 3^rd quarter.  Next week we start taking the new quarter tests.