Week of 12/7

Dear Parents,

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend! I thought virtual school went pretty smoothly on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Thanks again for your help and patience with it!  If you have any feedback about how the virtual days went, how the schedule was etc, feel free to share! Here are your reminders for the short week:

- If your child is ever virtual you can find the times to log on, the worksheets for the week and other helpful info on the blog under the Virtual Information tab!

- There will be a spelling and reading test on Friday. The spelling words are more difficult with the long vowel patterns so please be sure to study! For the reading test, I will only be reading the comprehension questions. The kids will have to read the choices and pick their answer.

- Virtual Monthly Mass on Friday at 9:00! Virtual kids do not need to sign on until 10:35 this day.

- Report cards will be given out next week.

- Please be sure that your child is reviewing sight words and is reading, especially during the days off and over break! They can lose these important skills just as fast as they learn them! This should be their "homework" along with math facts every night. Kids A-Z and IXL are both great for practice at home. Please use them!

- I sent home a packet of "Sight Word Phrases" with each child today to practice at home. This will help with sight word recognition and fluency! Work on one page at a time. Once your child can read the phrase without pausing or having to sound out words, check it off! Once they can read all the phrases on the first page with pausing/sounding out, move on to the next page.

- I am planning on starting homework when we return from Christmas Break.

- Hopefully you read Mr. Tosti's blog that was sent out earlier in the week! We will be having Virtual School on Monday, January 4th and Tuesday, January 5th when we return from Christmas break.

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will continue to talk about the Advent season and the meaning of Christmas!

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Fact and Opinion
Phonics Skill: Long A, (a_e and ay, introduce -ai) digraph th
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where
Spelling Words: that, then, with, cape, name, make, say, pray

Math

We will begin our unit of Place Value. We will focus on identifying the value of digits and building numbers with place value blocks.