Midweek Look thus far

Today is Wednesday the 22nd.  Today we got a lot accomplished.  I am proud of everyone and how well they have been doing.  If you are looking for things do at home to help out with the work we are doing in the classroom you can practice counting, asking what number comes next and always be reading with your student and have them read to you.  Today we officially kicked off Read to Self.  We had a chance to see what it looks like and what it does not look like.  The students had fun modeling the correct and incorrect behavior.  I am impressed on how well everyone gets down to reading by themselves.  We are working on our reading stamina and making it 5 minutes of reading to ourselves.  Reading to yourself is the best way to improve your reading.  While we are reading we learned there are three ways to read a book.  They are, read the pictures, read the words, and retell the story.  If you are reading at home, you and your student can use this strategy to help with comprehension.  We have also continued to talk about the short A sound and using it in our spelling words.  In math we have began adding numbers.  Today we got to make our own adding book.  I will say, I think everyone is already farther along in the math book than where we are starting.  The first couple of lessons will be easy but by the end of next week we are going to be writing our own addition sentences.  We have also been talking about sentences and how they all start with a capital letter and they end with a punctuation mark.  We talked about statements, questions and exclamations.  We are also introducing the 7 healthy habits.  The first one today, was to be proactive.  We talked about how we make our own choices and we need to make them for good.  Nobody can make our own fun, we are responsible for that.  If you are bored try making something for someone or doing something nice for them.

If you have not already turned in your permission slips for the Barnes and Noble field trip please do so. It costs $2 for bus travel.  Every student will come home with a book.

Again if you have any questions or concerns please email me at Robert.Moreland@evsc.k12.in.us.

Thanks!!!!