Dear Families,

We are so excited for Halloween! We hope to see you all at our school parade Tuesday, October 31st at 8:30 on the lower playground.

Classroom Needs: Thank you for the donations!  We could still use Prize Box items.

Field Trip: We will be taking our first field trip on November 13th. Look for the permission slip to come home soon. Please fill it out and return ASAP also with any needed paperwork to drive.  Also, be sure that you are fingerprinted and TB tested if you wish to drive.

Language Arts: Our strategy focus will be evaluating, comparing and contrasting. 

Grammar: We will focus on reading different types of sentences and marking them as a telling sentence or a question sentence.

Phonics: We will work with letter clusters with /s/, short /e/ and silent letters in /kn/, /wr/ and /gn/.

Phonograms: We have begun our learning about phonograms, two letters that when written together make one or more sounds. We learned /ai/ /ay/ /ee/ /er/ /ir/ /ur/ /ear/ this week.

Writer's Workshop: We have begin our new unit focusing on opinion writing.We started with the story Hey Little Ant.

Word Wall Words: Your children will learn 5 new word wall words each week and together we will put them on our Word Wall. Listed below are the word wall words on our wall so far and the 5 new ones. It is my hope that you will make a word wall at home or make flashcards to practice daily with your child. This will help your child with reading, writing, and spelling.

as a are and am at an all be because by big but can come did down do friend first from find for favorite girl get go he has him had his her have here house in I it if is just like little long my me make more many made may no not nice of on one once other over old play put see said some school she so saw the this to them then too time these two that they up very was we with what went will who want why when where which you yes your

                                EVERY        WAY         EACH        WATER         THERE

Star of the Week: We will begun our Star of the Week Program and LOVE learning more about our first grade friends. Please check out the Star of the Week Schedule listed to the right. If you have any questions or need to make a change in the schedule, just let me know.

Math: Our next unit in math encourages student mastery of key number facts and fact strategies for single digit addition and subtraction up to 20. We will use the strategies already introduced and emphasis COUNTING ON.

CGI: In an effort to increase rigor and incorporate more mathematical teaching strategies that will help reinforce the Standards of Mathematical Practice, I will begin teaching a rigorous story problem using the CGI, Cognitive Guided Instruction, approach. This will help me learn how your child problem solves and also help me to guide and plan my instruction.

Lexia Reading Core 5 Program: It is very helpful for you child to work in this program each day at home. This is a self directed program that helps your child with reading and spelling skills. Your child will need a head set to listen to the directions and complete it without any help as they do here at school. I receive a report as to the progress the children are making at with the program at home. I highly recommend it! To access it follow these 4 steps..

1. google lexia core 5

2 go to...

Lexia Reading Core5 | Lexia Learning

www.lexialearning.com/products/core5

3. go to "sign in" at the top right

4  scroll down to Core5

5 put in my email lea_robinson@pvusd.net (if needed)

4. your child will type in his/her username and password from the card provided

Moby Max is HERE! 

MobyMax is a computer based program and just like the Lexia Reading Core 5 Program, this is a self directed program that helps your child with academic skills at home. Using a headset, your child will be able to work in the program without any help.  I receive a weekly progress report just like the Core 5 Program and hope to see your child progressing in a consistent manner through the program.  Your child will be working in the "math and fact fluency" section. Each student has a unique login. Follow the steps written on your child's log in card. I stapled it to your child's class folder.