Week of October 18

Announcements:

Book Fair is this Week! We will go to the book fair as a class on Monday. They will also have opportunity to go to book fair the rest of the week if they bring money.

Monday 10/18- Panda Express Lunch Orders Due!

Tuesday 10/19- Kid’s Club!! Students may wear their Kids Club shirts to school. Kid’s Club is 3:30 to 4:30. You can drive through and pick up your child in the carpool line. If you have not signed up for Kid’s Club, it’s not too late! Only $15.

Wednesday 10/20 – Minister Appreciation Chapel- parents are welcome to attend but mask required

Thursday 10/21- Dinner Bell- Panda Express for lunch! If you are not eating Panda express, please remember to bring your own lunch and drink.

Friday 10/21- Booster Bake Sale

Sunday 10/24- Tractor Treat 4pm- 6pm at First Baptist Church! Candy, Hayrides, and a family maze! I would love to see you there! Come and find me at my decorated trunk!

Test Schedule:

Monday- Handwriting Test

Tuesday- Reading Comprehension

Wednesday-Math Tests (written and oral)

Math Speed Drills

Language Quiz

Thursday- Phonics- written and oral

Spelling

Friday- Bible Story Test

Bible Memory Verse Test

Homework (material to review and practice for tests)

Seatwork- Each week, I will send home any unfinished worksheets that students have not finished in class for homework. If your child has a lot of pages, I encourage them to do only a page or two a night. Please use these pages to review and practice the concepts we are learning. Also, I will send home checked seatwork to use to review.

Math– written– counting pennies and nickels; count by 10s; fill in before and after numbers by 10s, addition and subtraction facts Families 1-7; story problems; count by ones, fives and tens; oral-answer 5 addition problems, and Speed Drill – students have 1and half minutes to complete 12 addition and subtraction problems (4 sets of these)

PHONICS:  For written test– write letter sounds, write special sounds in words (study Chart 6,7,8), write words with special sounds and spelling words; and oral test -practice reading one-syllable words with one or two vowels, and words with special sounds from Chart 6 and 7.

The Handbook for Reading (apple book) is your “Phonics Bible”.  Have your child read letter sounds, blends with long and short vowel sounds, and words to you.  You could also dictate sounds, blends, and clue words for special sounds to your child for him/her to write.  Your child should be memorizing the special sounds and clue words for Charts 6 and 7.  We learn these so that students can use this when sounding out new words.  They should read each special sound and clue word and then spell them (example:  “ck in duck, c – k”).  You could make a matching game with the clue words on one type of card and the special sounds on another, mix them up, and have your child match the clue word with the special sound.  Note:  blends should be read as one sound, not sounding out each letter (example:  “la”, not “l – a”).

Spelling: For homework, I sent home a Spelling Bee sheet. Students need to write their words 3 times by Thursday and return in their red folder on Thursday for extra points. Each day students should study their words.

For the test this week, study these words: day, play, pray, gray, stay, spray, clay, way, stray, hay, is, are

HANDWRITING:  If your child is not getting A’s on the Writing tests, he/she should practice writing at home using lined paper that we use at school (with dotted lines in the middle).  You could have your child write the spelling words, his/her name (which is also graded on the writing tests).   Using the Manuscript Guide (copy in your Orientation packet), have your child practice writing the alphabet and numbers, and words. Make sure that they are holding their pencils correctly.

Bible: Bible verse:  Psalm 34:15 “The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry for help.”

Bible story for this week is Bride for Isaac (Gen 24:1-67) and Jacob and Esau part A (Gen 25:19-34)

Language: We are learning about Article Adjectives: A, An, The. We classify them with a capital A. On Wednesday, we will have a quiz classifying sentences. We are classifying sentences with Article Adjective(A)- Adjective (Adj) -Subject Noun (SN)—Verb (V)—Adverb (Adv).

On Thursday, I will send home the worksheets we have done in class for students to use to review for test on next Monday.

We classify sentences in the same order EVERY time:  Subject noun (which answers the question What or Who); then Verb (Action – what did the subject DO?); then Adverb (which answers questions How? When? Where?) and Adjective (which answers what kind? Which one? How many?). There are no questions to find the Article Adjectives, we just know that we must look for A, An, The.

Reading: Comprehension Test will include a short story and questions about the story. I sent home a Reading Homework Calendar last week. Please read the assigned pages each day and initial the date after reading. The reading calendar can be folded and kept in the reader or in the red folder.

Science: We have been learning about birds. We will be finishing our bird booklet this week and will send it home by Friday to use to review for test next week.

Week of October 11

Announcements:

Wednesday is Chapel- parents are welcome to attend but mask required

Wednesday- Eagle Store

Friday Oct 15- Donuts with Mom and Dad

Christian T-shirt day

Test Schedule:

Monday- Handwriting Test

Tuesday- Reading Comprehension

Wednesday-Math Tests (written and oral)

Math Speed Drills

Language Test

Thursday- Phonics- written and oral

Spelling

Friday- Bible Story Test

Bible Memory Verse Test

Homework (material to review and practice for tests)

Seatwork- Each week, I will send home any unfinished worksheets that students have not finished in class for homework. If your child has a lot of pages, I encourage them to do only a page or two a night. Please use these pages to review and practice the concepts we are learning. Also, I will send home checked seatwork to use to review.

Math– written– counting pennies and dimes together; count by 10s; addition and subtraction facts Families 1-7; story problems; fill in before and after numbers by ones; finding greatest and least number out of 3 numbers; oral-answer 5 addition problems, and Speed Drill – students have 1and half minutes to complete 12 addition and subtraction problems (4 sets of these)

PHONICS:  For written test– write letter sounds, write special sounds in words (study Chart 6 and 7), write words with special sounds and spelling words; and oral test -practice reading one-syllable words with one or two vowels, and words with special sounds from Chart 6 and 7.

The Handbook for Reading (apple book) is your “Phonics Bible”.  Have your child read letter sounds, blends with long and short vowel sounds, and words to you.  You could also dictate sounds, blends, and clue words for special sounds to your child for him/her to write.  Your child should be memorizing the special sounds and clue words for Charts 6 and 7.  We learn these so that students can use this when sounding out new words.  They should read each special sound and clue word and then spell them (example:  “ck in duck, c – k”).  You could make a matching game with the clue words on one type of card and the special sounds on another, mix them up, and have your child match the clue word with the special sound.  Note:  blends should be read as one sound, not sounding out each letter (example:  “la”, not “l – a”).

Spelling: For homework, I sent home a Spelling Bee sheet. Students need to write their words 3 times by Thursday and return in their red folder on Thursday. Each day students should study their words.

For the test this week, study these words:  back, bake, lick, like, snack, snake, brick, clock, shake, broke, comes, is

HANDWRITING:  If your child is not getting A’s on the Writing tests, he/she should practice writing at home using lined paper that we use at school (with dotted lines in the middle).  You could have your child write the spelling words, his/her name (which is also graded on the writing tests).   Using the Manuscript Guide (copy in your Orientation packet), have your child practice writing the alphabet and numbers, and words. Make sure that they are holding their pencils correctly.

Bible: Bible verse:  Psalm 34:14 “Turn away from evil and do what is good; seek peace and pursue it.”

Bible story for this week is Isaac and Ishmael (Gen 21:1-21) and Offering of Isaac (Gen 22:1-14, Heb 11:17-19).

Language: Test will be about adjectives.  On Monday, I will send home a worksheet that you can use to review for the test. We are classifying sentences with Adjective (Adj) -Subject Noun (SN)—Verb (V)—Adverb (Adv).  We classify sentences in the same order EVERY time:  Subject noun (which answers the question What or Who); then Verb (Action – what did the subject DO?); then Adverb (which answers questions How? When? Where?) and Adjective (which answers what kind? Which one? How many?).

Reading: Comprehension Test will include a short story and questions about the story. I sent home a Reading Homework Calendar last week. Please read the assigned pages each day and initial the date after reading. The reading calendar can be folded and kept in the reader or in the red folder.

Week of October 4

Announcements:

Wednesday is Chapel- parents are welcome to attend but mask required

Thursday, October 7- Spirit Day

Friday, October 8- No School

Test Schedule:

Monday- Handwriting Test

Tuesday- Reading Comprehension

Math Speed Drills

Wednesday-Math Tests (written and oral)

Bible Story Test

Bible Memory Verse Test

Thursday- Phonics- written and oral

Spelling

Homework (material to review and practice for tests)

Seatwork- Last week, I sent home any unfinished worksheets that students had not finished in class for homework. If your child has a lot of pages, I encourage them to do only one or two pages a night. Please use these pages to review and practice the concepts we are learning.

Math– written– counting pennies and dimes together; count by 10s; addition and subtraction facts Families 1-6; story problems; fill in missing numbers in a sequence; finding greatest and least number out of 3 numbers; oral-answer 5 addition problems, and Speed Drill – students have 1and half minutes to complete 12 addition and subtraction problems (4 sets of these)

PHONICS:  For written test– write letter sounds, write special sounds in words (study Chart 6 and 7) and spelling words; and oral test -practice reading one-syllable words with one or two vowels, and words with special sounds from Chart 6 and 7.

Phonics quiz- marking vowels in one-vowel and two-vowel words. One vowel rule: if only 1 vowel in a word, then vowel is short sound. If word has 2 vowels, then first vowel is long sound and second vowel is silent.

The Handbook for Reading (apple book) is your “Phonics Bible”.  Have your child read letter sounds, blends with long and short vowel sounds, and words to you.  You could also dictate sounds, blends, and clue words for special sounds to your child for him/her to write.  Your child should be memorizing the special sounds and clue words for Charts 6 and 7.  We learn these so that students can use this when sounding out new words.  They should read each special sound and clue word and then spell them (example:  “ck in duck, c – k”).  You could make a matching game with the clue words on one type of card and the special sounds on another, mix them up, and have your child match the clue word with the special sound.  Note:  blends should be read as one sound, not sounding out each letter (example:  “la”, not “l – a”).

Spelling: For homework, I sent home a Spelling Bee sheet. Students need to write their words 3 times by Thursday and return in their red folder on Thursday. Each day students should study their words.

For the test this week, study these words: bean, made, cat, kick, cone, keep, cute, boat, man, sun, the, a

HANDWRITING:  If your child is not getting A’s on the Writing tests, he/she should practice writing at home using lined paper that we use at school (with dotted lines in the middle).  You could have your child write the spelling words, his/her name (which is also graded on the writing tests).   Using the Manuscript Guide (copy in your Orientation packet), have your child practice writing the alphabet and numbers, and words. Make sure that they are holding their pencils correctly.

Social Studies: We will be finishing Unit 1- learning about rules and laws in school and in our community. I will send home a vocabulary list for Unit 1.  We will have a quiz with these words and definitions next week.

Bible: Bible verse:  Psalm 34:13 ” Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.”

Bible story for this week is Abraham’s Guests Destroy Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:1- 33 and Gen.19: 1-4, 9-29).

Language: We are learning about adjectives.  We are classifying sentences with Adjective (Adj) -Subject Noun (SN)—Verb (V)—Adverb (Adv).  See worksheets that I send home.  We classify sentences in the same order EVERY time:  Subject noun (which answers the question What or Who); then Verb (Action – what did the subject DO?); then Adverb (which answers questions How? When? Where?) and Adjective (which answers what kind? Which one? How many?).

Reading: Comprehension Test will include a short story and questions about the story. I sent home a Reading Homework Calendar last week. Please read the assigned pages each day and initial the date after reading. The reading calendar can be folded and kept in the reader or in the red folder.

Announcements:

Wednesday, Sept. 29- Eagle Store. Bring .50 to a dollar and buy a toy or snack.

Wednesday is Chapel- parents are welcome to attend but mask required

Friday, October 1- No School- Parish Fair Day

Test Schedule:

Monday- Handwriting Test

Tuesday- Reading Comprehension

Language Test Ch 3

Writing Numbers Quiz

Wednesday-Math Tests (written and oral) and Speed Drills

Phonics Quiz

Thursday- Phonics- written and oral

Spelling

Bible Story Test

Bible Memory Verse Test

Homework (material to review and practice for tests)

Math– written– counting pennies and dimes; addition and subtraction facts Families 1-6; number that comes between 2 numbers; addition story problems; calendar-fill in missing numbers and days of the week; finding greatest and least number out of 3 numbers; oral-answer 5 addition problems, and Speed Drill – students have two minutes to complete 12 addition and subtraction problems (4 sets of these)

Writing numbers quiz- I will call out a number from 1-100 and students will write that number

PHONICS:  For written test– write letter sounds, write special sounds in words (study Chart 6) and spelling words; and oral test -practice reading one-syllable words with one or two vowels, and words with special sounds from Chart 6.

Phonics quiz- marking vowels in one-vowel and two-vowel words. One vowel rule: if only 1 vowel in a word, then vowel is short sound. If word has 2 vowels, then first vowel is long sound and second vowel is silent.

The Handbook for Reading (apple book) is your “Phonics Bible”.  Have your child read letter sounds, blends with long and short vowel sounds, and words to you.  You could also dictate sounds, blends, and clue words for special sounds to your child for him/her to write.  Your child should be memorizing the special sounds and clue words for Charts 6 and 7.  We learn these so that students can use this when sounding out new words.  They should read each special sound and clue word and then spell them (example:  “ck in duck, c – k”).  You could make a matching game with the clue words on one type of card and the special sounds on another, mix them up, and have your child match the clue word with the special sound.  Note:  blends should be read as one sound, not sounding out each letter (example:  “la”, not “l – a”).

Spelling: For homework, I sent home a Spelling Bee sheet. Students need to write their words 3 times by Thursday and return in their red folder on Thursday. Each day students should study their words.

For the test this week, study these words: ran, bus, hot, net, sit, coat, goat, read, game, ride, to, have

HANDWRITING:  If your child is not getting A’s on the Writing tests, he/she should practice writing at home using lined paper that we use at school (with dotted lines in the middle).  You could have your child write the spelling words, his/her name (which is also graded on the writing tests).   Using the Manuscript Guide (copy in your Orientation packet), have your child practice writing the alphabet and numbers, and words. Make sure that they are holding their pencils correctly.

Social Studies: Last week we started Unit 1- learning about rules and laws in school and in our community. I will send home a vocabulary list for Unit 1.  We will have a quiz with these words and definitions next week.

Bible: Bible verse:  Psalm 34:11 “Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.”

Bible stories for this week are Abram in Egypt (Genesis 12:10-20), Abram and Lot Separate (Genesis 13:1-13), God promises a son to Abram (Genesis 15:1-6), Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 16), Abram and Sarai receive new names (Genesis 17:1-6, 15)

Language: We introduced Adverbs to sentences last week.  We are classifying sentences with Subject Noun (SN)—Verb (V)—Adverb (Adv).  See worksheets that I send home.  We classify sentences in the same order EVERY time:  Subject noun (which answers the question What or Who); then Verb (Action – what did the subject DO?); then Adverb (which answers questions How? When? Where?).

Reading: Comprehension Test will include a short story and questions about the story. I sent home a Reading Homework Calendar last week. Please read the assigned pages each day and initial the date after reading. The reading calendar can be folded and kept in the reader or in the red folder.