Week of October 15-19, 2018

Weekly Newsletter for October 15-19, 2018

In Reading, we will continue with our story, “The Big Blue Ox.”  We are discussing ways that animals help people.  Throughout this story we identified the characters and how the setting changed. Sight words for “The Big Blue OX” are: blue, help, little, from, use, and get.  Our Reading test will be Thursday, October 18^th. 

Our focus phonics skills for this story are short o and plural –s; consonant s/z/.  The spelling words for this story are: hot, hop, pot, pop, ox, lock, mop, got, rock, and mom.  The challenge words are “help” and “use.”  Our Spelling test will be on Thursday, October 18^th. 

In Math, we started learning addition facts to 10 in Unit 2!  We have been identifying the missing addend in our number sentence, and discussing the communitive property! Key vocabulary words you will hear this week are: join, plus, sum, and equal. 

Our schedule for the upcoming week:

Monday (10/15) – Day 4- Library- Students will shop during this time! Family Night to shop the Book Fair is from 4pm-7pm tonight in the Library!

Tuesday (10/16) – Day 5- Gym

Wednesday (10/17)- Day 6- Music

Thursday (10/18)- Day 7- Computers

Friday (10/19)- Day 8- Art- Spartan Dress Down Day for a $1 donation!

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me!  I can be reached by phone, note, email (cschuster@northschuylkill.net) or by Class Dojo message!