9/23 Reading!!!

Nightly Fluency: Last week’s Nightly Reading fluency papers were collected today. Only about 1/2 the class returned their paper with the questions completed on the back. Those kids that returned their papers showed growth in the number of correct words read. Yippee!

Bag of Books: Students that brought their Bag of Books to school today, got to trade for a new Bag of Books. While trying to keep the number of the bags in order, I think some students ended up taking home the same Bag of Books they had last week. If that is true, I’ll see what I can do, but they may have to wait until next week.

9/20 Technology Folders

I have finished making a “Technology Take-Home Folders” for each student. The folders will go home Wednesday. Inside, you will find all the login information for sites we will be using in class this year. Your children have already been on RAZ Kids and Xtra Math. Other sites will be used as the school year progresses.

Everything we will be using is NO COST to you. There is NO NEED to purchase anything related to or for any of these sites. Everything we will use is available at NO COST to use. That’s it. NO PURCHASE is necessary.

Look for the folder Wednesday.

9/20 Good Stuff

Your kids spend some time today learning how to log into different websites they will be using this year. Overall, everyone did a good job listening, following directions, and waiting their turn. Everyone was able to get onto RAZ Kids and do a little reading. Most were able to get onto Xtra Math and practice some addition fact fluency to 20.

9/20 Assembly

Parents,

Today was the kickoff assembly for a fundraiser. Your children have the information in their Take-Home folders today.

Best Part – – – Your children had EXCELLENT behavior. They listened when the speaker was talking and were loud and laughing when the speaker was funny. They were great.

9/19 Wow!

I think this may be the best overall group of students I have ever had gather materials, work together, and then clean up on their 1st time participating in a whole class partner activity. It was awesome!

 

9/18 It’s Good to be Back

It was great to be back in the classroom today. The district meeting was informative and a good review of professional development K-2 teachers participated in last year.

Please reinforce with your children that even though they may think they are playing when they put their hands on another student, the other child may not see it that way. The substitute in my room yesterday, left a message that several students had their hands on other classmates which disrupted the lessons and the learning.

Your children did a lot of work today. They worked on two addition and subtraction fact activities, read independently and with their classmates, started writing a new story about how they have fun with their family, worked on some old stories, and listened for the subtle difference between the sounds of “short e” and “short i”.

Have a great afternoon and evening.

9/16 Spotlight Student

Your child took home a paper today explaining Spotlight Student. The paper says that a student will be chosen each Monday. Actually, to provide students with more time to complete the activity if needed, our weekly Spotlight Student will be chosen on Wednesday instead. This will given you and your child a week to complete the activity and return it to school instead of just two days.

9/16 District Training

I will be out tomorrow for a district training, but I will be back Wednesday.

9/16 Nightly Fluency reading

Students received their new Nightly Fluency reading paper for this week. Where you see a line drawn between words indicates how far your child read in one minute. Any circled or underlined words were misread. Please have your child read this story or for at least one minute each night. The questions on the back can be completed anytime between now and Monday morning. I’ll collect this week’s story next Monday and give your child a new one.

Happy Reading!

9/16 Bag-of-Books

We exchanged our Bag-of-Books today. If your child returned their Bag-of-Books today, they will have brought home a new bag today. If they did not, they will be able to exchange their bag next Monday.

Happy Reading!