Week of 1/15

Mrs. Longstreth surprised us last week!

Dear Parents,

I hope you had a nice long weekend. Thank you to those of you who donated and volunteered for yesterday's Day of Service. We will talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today in school.

At this point in the year is when I start giving the students more independence to complete their work. They will start reading directions, completing workbook pages, worksheets and activities by themselves. For tests, I will only be reading the questions from now on. They will read the answers by themselves. It is important for them to become "self-starters" and gain the confidence to complete tasks by themselves. It would be great if you could reinforce this at home with homework. Of course, if they need help, help them, but make sure they try to read the directions or questions and figure it out by themselves first. The more independent they become the better off they will be!

Here are your reminders for this week:

- SKS will be participating in Jump Rope for Heart with the American Heart Association. Information about the program will be sent home today.

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return Thursday.

-Wednesday is a Dress Down Day. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- There will be a Chapter 9 Religion test on Friday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- SKS Trivia night will be Saturday in the Parish Center!

That is all for now! Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Tuesday

Reading: page 181

practice Magic Words

Math: page 58
**please check that the groups of tens are circled correctly. We did it in class today. Some kids preferred counting by twos and some by ones.

Wednesday

Reading: page 182

practice Magic Words

Math: page 59

Thursday
Reading: page 183
Math: FIM 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 9 "Jesus Died and Rose to New Life" and have a test on Friday.

Reading
Story: "Seasons"
Target Skill: Cause and effect
Phonics Skill: Long I, digraph -sh, -wh, -ph and contractions 's and n't
Grammar: Subjects and verbs
Magic Words: down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, many, pull, because, want

Spelling Words: ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, want, like, kite, night

Math

We will start our unit on place value this week. We will learn about the tens and ones place and practice identifying tens and ones in numbers.