Ms.

Glidewells

Class
December 12thDecember 16th 2016
Dear Parents,
This week in Readers Workshop, we will read, Yoko
To increase reading comprehension, we will work on
segmenting letter sounds in words, rhymes substituting
letter sounds, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and
language awareness with sentences. We will Summarize (A
good way to understand a story is to think about the
important key events and the order in which they happen.
We can retell the story from beginning to end.) Make
Inferences (Sometimes we must figure out things in the
story ourselves. Paying attention to the important events
gives us clues about the story.) Informational Text:
Expository (text that explains or gives information; often
contains photographs)
This week in Writers Workshop we will finish our Hoe
to books and make cards. We will be focusing on using
spacing between words, pointing to the words to reread our
writing to see if it makes sense. We will work on correcting
our writing so it will make sense to others. In Math we will
play many games to reinforce numbers and counting
backwards, comparing numbers, composing and decomposing
numbers, and counting on from a certain number, writing
the number before and after a given number.
For Social Studies we will be talking about
Holidays and Traditions. In Science, we will continue our
scientist of the day lessons.
Scientist of the Day
Your child was assigned a day and a project. Your child will
do the experiment at home and then bring in the materials
and explain it and do it with the class. Projects will begin
Dec. 1st and end Jan. 15th. Your child will be graded on the
experiment and his/her lesson taught to the class. The
lessons have been awesome so far!
Wish List
Books we need for an upcoming writing unit:
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman
Can I Keep Him? By Steven Kellogg
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Williams
Can I Have a T-Rex Dad? By Lois Grambling
Dont Let the Pigeon drive The Bus by Mo Williams
(New or used, paperback or hardback)

Class Holiday Party

You will receive an email from our room parents about
helping or sending supplies for our party. It will be on
Monday, December 19th at 12:15-1:15. We only need four or
five parent helpers and they will coordinate this.
Our Class Performance
January 13th
Our class will be performing at the morning assembly at
7:35 on the stage. I wanted to give you plenty of notice so
you can come and watch.
Ways you can support your childs learning at home:

Have your child read to someone each night for 1015 min.

Have your child practice writing simple sentences

paying attention to using spacing between words,
capitalization and punctuation

Play a word wall word game (ideas on the back of

the list sent at BTS night)

Help your child sound out words and write about a

topic of interest using details in a story and
drawing pictures to go with the words.

Count backwards from 20

Generate a number that is one more than or one

less than another number up to 20 ( also a new
requirement from the state)

Practice counting by 5s to 100 orally

Have your child practice writing first and last

name
List of word wall words for the year:
I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are,
for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was,
she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who,
at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get,
had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her, they, could,
some, one, two, three ,four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple,
black, white, brown
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Book Baggies
Read every night
Looking forward to a great week!
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326