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Please continue to send a jacket for your child on these colder days.  Make sure your child’s name is in it J

 Last week and over the next two weeks, I will complete  mid year testing.  So far, I have tested the children on letters/sounds, sight words, Ohio Word List, and dictation.  This week I will continue with concepts about print, writing vocabulary, and reading levels.  Next week, I will do all math mid year testing.  I will use these results to complete your child's report card, which you will receive after the winter break.  Because I am testing, your child isn't receiving a new home reader that we would have worked on in small groups.  This friday, your child will bring home his bag with all books read so far.  After the break, we will clean out our bag at school and begin getting new books...hooray! 

Theme: Happy Holidays!!

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds about holiday themes, making predictions, re-telling the story, recalling

the sequence of events and discussing the characters, the rising action in a story that forms a story arc.

Writing:  Writers Workshop!  Shared, Interactive and Modeled writing and Independent writing. We will be continuing to use a book format to write our own stories.

Word Wall Words:  Review: I, can, see, a, go, the, to, and, is, in, it, you, me, he, she, of, can, said, red, blue, green, orange, yellow, brown, blue, black

NO NEW WORDS!  We will use this and next to test the children on the above words.  They need to be able to read them quickly by sight (not sound them out). 

Word Family:  This we will explore the word family of AN.

Math: Review: Ordinal Numbers, measuring length/width, tally marks, graphing, counting aloud, counting sets, counting objects with one to one correspondence, and determining more/less.

Science:   Finishing Magnet and Starting Rocks

Social Studies:  Holiday Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·        Monday:  Ask your family what their favorite holiday symbol is:  dreidel, Christmas tree, or a candy cane?  Record their answers with tally marks!.

·        Tuesday:  Write a sentence using the word SAID and a sentence using the word OF.

·        Wednesday:  Put five toys in a line.  Practice describing them using your ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)

·        Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·        Friday: Read your Home Reader Book at least 2 times. Bring your library books back on Monday