Progress Reports will be sent home on Wednesday. This is an informal report that will provide you with information about your child's performance in the first weeks of school. Demonstrated skills are marked with a smile, highlighted skills have not yet been demonstrated. Please work with your child on any skill they have not yet mastered. You may contact me with any questions or suggestions once you review your child's report.
Letters of the Week: c, o - Students should name, recognize the sound, and properly form each letter Fundations letter practice
New Heart Words (Review): I, love, see, can, make, we, be
(Make flash cards on index cards to practice letters or sight words each night.)
Reading: The Relatives Came and So Much
- Illustrations help tell a story
- Asking and answering questions about the stories
- Retelling stories
Writing: Narrative Writing - Using a combination of pictures, words, and dictation to tell a story
(Last week, we worked on touch & tell stories and drawing pictures to help tell our stories.)
- Rehearsing thoughts - clarifying what students want to say
- Matching letters to sounds to write words - Early writers may only be able to write a beginning sound independently. The sentence "I went to a store " might be written, IWTS.
- Using the word wall in our classroom
Math:
- Recognizing and writing numbers 0 to 10 Dr. Jean numeral writing song
- Counting groups up to 10
- Counting to 50 and 100
- Identifying 2 -D shapes (circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons)
Telly's Shape Garden
Buddy's Gem Hunt
Science:
Force and Motion - How Do Objects Move?
Motion Song
Push or a pull song