August 21, 2008
I've been enjoying watching the class get to know each other. There are more conversations happening this week!
Thank you for coming to Open House. Remember if you have any questions, just send me a note.
We started our timed tests for addition this week. The goal is to answer 90-100 facts in 5 minutes. If a child does not meet this goal, then I will send the timed test home, along with an extra (front and back) practice sheet. One way to practice the facts is to play addition war with 2 decks of cards. Place an index card with +1 in the middle. Each player will turn over a card and add that number to 1. Call out your sum. The larger sum wins the battle. I take out the face cards when I play. You can play this with all your addition facts or multiplication facts. You can orally practice by making a deck of +1 facts on index cards. Keep slipping the fact they stumble on toward the front of the deck, so that they have to practice it more often. Finally, you can have your child practice on the sheets I sent home. If your child gets overwhelmed, give them a second piece of plain paper to cover all but the row that they are working on. Timed tests are given on Tuesdays and Fridays. So please check their folders for practice tests.
The AR goal is 5 points for this quarter to get admission to the movie and a treat. An extra 5 points will earn an additional treat.
Reading: We worked on some word analysis: short vowels, magic E words, vowel teams and suffixes. We also started to work on summarizing.
Math: We worked on number sense, tens and ones, counting change and telling time.
Language Arts: The first unit of Sitton was introduced. We learned to double the final f, l, or s in short vowel, single syllable words when the f, l or s comes immediately after the vowel. We also concentrated on capitalizing the first word of a sentence as well as the word "I."
Social Studies: The state of Georgia was introduced.
Thank you Lee Blumentritt and Julie Raymond for being our room mothers. I really appreciate all that you are doing. Thanks to all of you for being so wonderful and volunteering for our assorted needs this year and for all that you do for the PTA. I appreciate it all.
Take care,
Mrs. Kantor
