Status of the Class

Reading
The main focus of our new reading series is listening comprehension.  Students are read a selection with limited pictures and are responsible to recall the information.  You can help at home by continuing to read to your child and discuss the stories that you read.
The current module is focusing on the human body.  You will be amazed at the facts that your child is learning!  It amazes me how much these young minds can absorb.  Ask your child about the different body systems we've discussed and the importance of each one.  Here's a cheat sheet for parents:
skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, and nervous systems.  We will continue discussions this week with health and nutrition.  Let's see if your child starts making better food choices on their own!!

Writing
We are spending one more week on the foundations for writing including writing in complete sentences using capitals, spacing, and punctuation.  I hope you encourage your child at home to always do their best work and not to settle for anything less (specifically focusing on messy handwriting).

Math
The children are readily using the counting up strategy to solve for sums and missing addends.  Encourage them to put one of the numbers in their head and count up using the other number.  We are looking for fluency (little think time) in facts to 10.

i-ready
Most students are well under way with their lessons.  Their will be a progress monitoring assessment assigned to them the first full week of October.  I ask that they do not take this at home so I can get a more accurate assessment of their work.  I will discuss this with the children as well.  To begin a lesson, the button is red.  I believe the button color will change to green to indicate a progress monitoring assessment has been assigned to them.  Regular use of i-ready will prepare them for future diagnostics.