Week of 1/13

Dear Parents,

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:

- We are still fighting off the flu in this classroom! If your child is diagnosed, please let me know so I can tell Mrs. Manion, our school nurse. We will continue to sanitize daily. We miss all of our sick friends!

- For MLK Day (1/20) SKS will be having a day of service from 10:00 am -12:00 pm in the cafeteria. All are welcome to volunteer! First grade has been asked to send in individually wrapped toothbrushes and toothpaste. If you would like to to donate you can send them in any time before Monday, 1/20. Thanks for your help!

- On Tuesday and Wednesday, the 7th grade will be selling popsicles and raffle tickets to win gift baskets to raise money for Ryan's Cases for Smiles. It is a local organization that helps families with children who are fighting cancer. You can find more out here.

-Wednesday is a Dress Down Day for Ryan's Cases for Smiles. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- On Thursday, pictures for yearbook will be taken. Please do not dress down on this day.

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 8 on Thursday.

- There will be a Reading and Spelling test on Friday.

That is all for now! Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Monday
Religion: study for test

Reading: page 189

practice Magic Words

Math: page 62

Tuesday
Religion: study for test

Reading: page 186

practice Magic Words

Math: page 63

Wednesday
Religion: study for test tomorrow

Reading: page 190 and 192

practice Magic Words

Math: page 64 

Thursday
Reading: study to tests tomorrow
Math: page 66

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish Chapter 8 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading
Story: "Seasons"
Target Skill: Cause and effect
Phonics Skill: Long I, digraphs -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, when, why, crash, like, kite, night, pie, tie

Math

We will continue our unit on place value this week. We will review identifying tens and ones in numbers. We will focus on finding the "value" of digits. We will also work with expanded form and comparing numbers.