The Toucan Times
November 2, 2009
If you have any questions please e-mail (tkirkwood@cullmancats.net) or call
me and I will get back to you ASAP. If you want your child to eat breakfast
at school please make sure that he/she knows to do so or if he/she is not to
eat make sure this is known. Please send in lunch money on Monday in and
envelope marked lunch money with your child’s name on the front.
*November 2nd report cards
*November 9th Veteran’s Day program, if you have a veteran who will be
attending please send in their name this week and the branch of service
he/she served in.
*November 11th no school
Phonics:
Review magic e (game, silent e at the end of a
word), /ph/, /wh/, /ch/, /tch/, /ea/, /ee/, /oa/.
Sight Words:
Focus words for the week are live, out, people, who, work.
Reading:
We will cover identifying characters, setting, problems and solutions,
retelling using beginning, middle and end, cause and effect, monitoring and
fix up, long /i/, /ch/ and /tch/. This story should be read Monday night
each night after there will be a different story coming home that will
contain the same skills covered as in the story. The skills for the story
are author’s purpose and questioning. The Ugly Duckling, Miss Rumphius and
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs will be used to identify author’s
purpose.
Math:
We use Saxon math at CCPS. This program builds on concepts and reviews
daily. We will complete hands on lessons in class each day and complete side
A of the math worksheet together in class. Your child will complete side B
as homework each night and return the sheet back to me the following day.
Math skills this week are; addition number sentences, numbers 39-41, double
addition facts to 18, addition facts adding zero, covering a design in
different ways, identifying identical designs, counting by 10’s to 100,
subtraction facts: subtracting 1.
*I will not send home the graded homework papers.
Science/Social Studies:
Patriotism